On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 04:39:47AM +0300, ORHUN KABAKLI wrote:
> > MorphOS image decoders are PPC native. What are you talking about?
> I am talking about AmigaOS which is currently the standard on Amiga.
> Morphos has got problems... And I think it is not a good idea to program
> a beta browser for a beta operating system.. :)
Why isn't it ? It works, and quite nicely. It's also the only way to
have mixed mode 68k and PPC native programs and it's clean.
> Is it too difficult to program a warpos version of image decoders? at least
> jpeg.? With AWebs ppc jfif pligin, everything gets very fast and I can
> scroll through a page while its being loaded because pictures are decoded
> using ppc leaving most of 68k free. It is also at least 4 times faster on my
> 233 mhz 604e than my 060-50.
It makes no sense to do *progressive* image decoders on a dual-CPU system
without hardware cache consistency. You end up flushing caches everytime
making serious impact on overall system performances.
I already explained that many times but..
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