On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 03:36:04PM -0500, Wesley Mason wrote: > Depending on the direction Plucker is taking, a fully native OS5 viewer > may already be considered or in the works. Maybe someone with a better > feel for this can jump in and verify that.
Well, from my perspective I would highly doubt it. Partly becuase of the nature PRC files are created, you can never have a fully 100% native ARM program. Secondly, all the palm OS api's are written to be backwards compatible with M68K (non-ARM) programs; although they are callable from ARM code, they're actually alot more work to do so :) Finally, even if plucker were ported to be as close to 100% native arm as possible, ultimatly the speed benifit wouldn't be all that great since mostly all what plucker is doing is drawing to the screen and waiting for user input. Only work done by the processor itself (compression, algorithms, searching, etc) would really qualify for a significant speed increase on an ARM device; fortunatly zlib fits in well :) > > Will this version improve the speed of a non-OS5 Palm? Unfortunatly no. There are some ways to improve the speed in plucker itself, maybe by rearranging a few tasks, pre-rendering the page, etc,.. but ultimatly your car (like your device) can only go as fast as your maximum horse power will allow. -- Adam McDaniel Array.org Calgary, AB, Canada _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
