From: "Stefan Burstrom" Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: The Wolf is released! (was Re: WarpOS released !!!) Date: 04 Oct 97 00:17:35 +0100 Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden Lines: 47 Message-ID: <2271.7216T17T1765@efd.lth.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: cif94sbu.student.lth.se NNTP-Posting-User: stefan X-Newsreader: THOR 2.5 Elysium (Amiga;TCP/IP) Path: 195.95.96.10!news.unisource.be!planetinternet.be!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!cosy.sbg.ac.at!newsfeed.Austria.EU.net!newscore.univie.ac.at!newsfeed.ecrc.net!192.108.210.10.MISMATCH!news.stupi.se!eru.mt.luth.se!news.lth.se!not-for-mail On 02-Oct-97 21:26:39 Goswin Brederlow (goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de) wrote: >Why not use the internal timer of the PPC? Does that mean that when >some programm disbles multitasking on m68k no scheduler interuptys >will be delivered to the ppc and it doesn't multitask anymore? That is usually what the programer wants when he stops interrupts... >> > Well, what about a compiler that supports both formats ? Now THAT would >> > be an idea :) (At least, until this stuff settles...) >> >> And what about very powerful compilers for PPC that run on other >> systems, generate ELF format binaries, and can provide the possibility >> to compile highly optimized code which may be far more efficient than >> the solutions available on the Amiga now? We at least want to have this >> option to be able to compile our software for highest performance and >> optimized code. >I like the idea of being able to crosscompile software easily, BUT: >Is the PowerUP Amiga so slow or unstable that it can't be used to >compile something? Will you (P5) use PowerUP Amigas to compile? Are >you doing so already? >A Computercompany should use its own software and hardware, unless its >not reliable enough (as in the case of some really BIG Software Rotfl! So you suggest that AI and Phase5 use Amigas for VHDL design:) I'd prefer a SunUltra for that even if the chips are not meant to go into a Sun machine. Btw, the SSL support code in IBrowse is cross compiled on a Linux box simply because it is much faster and cheaper than using SAS/C if you want the same compile time. What is wrong by chosing the system that gets the job done best. Linux on a P133 compiles our code faster but AmigaOS runs the code nicer. > >It the users choise. V7 runs with ppc.lib and V8 doesn't to gain some >speed. The user has the choise of liveing with a hack or a clean >thing. If he chooses the hack he has to live with it. Not all functions in V8 exists in V7... regards, Stefan Burstroem ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Irl: Stefan Burstroem << >> Omnipresence Intl. << >> Irc: Yabba << >> Phone: +46 (0)46-211 40 84 << >> EMail: stefan@omnipresence.com << -----------------------------------------------------------------------