On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Ben Combee wrote: > > 68K emulator - That sounds fast. ;<} I hope that developers of dev > > systems that target both platforms will not depend on an emulator and > > produce code that runs natively, or they will surely not have much of > > a following from developers on this forum. > > I will note that the demo at last years PalmSource showed the 68K > application PocketChess running at least three times faster on the ARM > board than it ran on the Palm Vx that it was beamed from. As noted last > year, most Palm OS programs spend most of their time sleeping or in OS > routines. It is safe to assume that sleeping will be just as fast, and > OS routines will be much faster on ARM-based devices.
um.. be careful :) some OS routines have more overhead than they are worth.. custom m68k code emulated has actually ran faster than their native ARM implemented OS routine substitutions.. // az [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ardiri.com/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
