Date   : Mon, 12 Dec 1994 14:57:53 +0000
From   : lamcw <lamcw@...>
Subject: Re: P90s

The irrepressible Mark Cooke wrote:


;> 90MHz is quite a lot, I would have thought a beeb emulator would whizz along
;> at that pace.

;Well, Dave's emulator is in C & C++, which is quite an overhead in itself.
;Apparently it runs at about 1/3 to 1/5 the speed of a real beeb.

My effort runs at about the same speed on a 25MHz 68040 and is also in C.
I thought something like a 486DX2 66MHz is suppose to dump all over a '040.
But let's not start a war. 



;BTW, you don't know what Intel are doing with the broken P90's do you?  I
;don't do lots of floating point maths 'cause its inefficient for most
;things.  Any going cheep?


How can you be sure the software you use won't use the FPU?


;> As an impartial Mac user, I cannot condone such insensitive jokes 
;> <chortle>
;
;He laughs and he's a Mac user  ;-)

mmm, i suppose i was asking for it. at least, it can do its division sums.



Chris Lam.