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From: bdady@netcom.com (Brian Dady)
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Subject: Re: CyberStorm 060
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>On Sun, 28 May 1995, John Crookshank, MicroTech Solutions, Inc. wrote:
>> I imagine it will be like when the first '040s came out. It took a little
>> time for the software to be optimized to take advantage of them. I forget
>> now which version of Lightwave (2.0/3.0?) it was to do so, but we then
>> noticed an IMMEDIATE speed increase of about 4x or so on the same
>> '040-based system.
To which Dave Warner, Event Horizon Graphics, replied:
>Yeah, I forget which version it was, too, but I do remember that it was
>quite exciting to see how much faster the optimized version was. Right
>now I'm trying to convince someone who wants to get into LightWave that
>he should shell out a few extra hundred dollars for a used 040 Amiga
>instead of a used 030 system...he doesn't believe that it's worth the few
>extra dollars, but I guess he'll just have to learn the hard way. =)
>Our only concern now should be whether or not Allen and Stuart will
>bother rewriting math functions for the "lowly" Amiga...even it does have
>an 060 chip installed. (or what about the possible PowerPC Amiga?!)
>Well, let's give them a chance to finish 4.0 first and then we can bother
>them about 060 (or PPC) math functions for LW 5.0!
I suspect the gating factor wouldn't be rewriting the math functions of
Lightwave, but rather re-compiling for the '060. This could be a problem
since the publisher of the only remaining Amiga C-compiler (SAS) stated
some time ago their plans to not release any more Amiga products. I have
version 6.51 which I believe is the latest, and it does not support the
'060. On the other hand, isn't the '060 supposed to be plug-n-play
compatible with the '040? I recall reading software for the '040 would
run under the '060, and much faster. I realize that hardware-compatibility
does not necessarily mean optimization of software is not needed. Does
anyone have the facts on this? If there is such a thing as '060-specific
code-generation, do any of the pd/shareware compilers support it?
-Brian
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