Date   : Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:38:48 +0100
From   : John Kortink <kortink@...>
Subject: Re: Warning: Sad case on list!

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:58:29 +0000 (GMT), Sprow wrote:

>In article <00f201c642d4$48ef4c60$3201a8c0@...>,
>   David Hunt <dm.hunt@...> wrote:
>
>> > If you remove the outer loop and set E%=1, I get the 'brot up in around 
>> > 28 mins
>>
>> 28 mins and 24 secs on the Turbo, about 8 seconds slower than the 32016.
>
>4 mins 33 secs on ARM7 coprocessor, it's a useful benchmark program to have
>actually as I've got some space left in the FPGA so could make the FIFO for
>OSWrch deeper to improve parallel execution.

The depth of that FIFO won't matter too much, probably.
The ARM side will be waiting for 'slomo' to draw things
most of the time anyway. Saving a few cycles just on
getting the VDU bytes through won't make that much of
a difference.


John Kortink

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