[REBOL] Re: Amiga View text rendering (was rebol/view on a 486?)
From: jean:holzammer:faedv-n:bayern at: 21-Jun-2001 11:13
>May I take a wild guess and assume you're using an Amiga?
yep.
>So, given a decent GFX-card, View text-entry should be quite
pleasent
>on a 50Mhz 060 Amiga. (Though through AGA I guess not.) Any other
>060 users like to comment?
AGA only :(
>That said, View's text-rendering should be a lot faster than it is
on
>the Amiga.
If RT would compile CPU specific executables, view might run a lot
faster , especially on a 060 as it has a different architecture than the
other 68K processors. Modern C-Compilers can optimize (pipeline !) quite
good. Many 68060-optimized programs run 1.5 to 2.0 times faster on a 060
than a 020 version on the same cpu.
>One other thing to note: View1.0 for the Amiga was released with
some
>error-checking (or whatever) still turned on. View1.1 and 1.2 are
>noticably faster, so if your View is prior to 1.1 an upgrade would
>speed it up a bit.
I use View1.2.
Jean
