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- From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Falcon BUS..
- Message-ID: <10961@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 00:52:10 GMT
- References: <mpnolan.720881057@unix1.tcd.ie> <27701@castle.ed.ac.uk> <jonal.95.720952501@dhhalden.no> <1992Nov5.114927.14711@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry) writes:
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- >5) Why does the benchmarks that I have seen posted here only indicate an
- >approx 3x speed increase and real-world tests (excluding any disk access)
- >only twice as fast?
-
- One of the major reasons will be that the "real-world tests" will be using
- a program that has been compiled to 68000 code rather than 68030 code. The
- '030 has many more powerful instructions (in addition to all the '000 ones).
- Including:
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- 32 x 32 giving 64-bit multiplication (and similar division)
- shift-widths on indices (ie. it will effectively shift and
- unshift the index register for you, up to a limit)
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