I wonder what is QPC overhead (it's not to offense Marcel : QPC is a great product) : does anybody know the slowdown factor eaten by the emulator, or in other word, what is the factor to apply to the speed of SMSQ under QPC to have an idea of SMSQ speed written directly for x86 ?
Claude -----Message d'origine----- De : Phoebus Dokos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoy� : mercredi 10 octobre 2001 15:41 � : QL Users' mailing list Objet : [ql-users] Need some flaming :-) - What about re-writing QDOS for x86 processors Hmmm, it's that time of year again.... So I had a good idea for a flaming (I need it since it's cold in Pennsylvania now ;-) What about rewriting QDOS/SMS (or converting the assembly sources) in order to run NATIVELY on x86 processors. There are a number of nice tools available for that (like the PortAsm/68K by MicroAPL) that could completely translate the assembly sources to optimised native x86 assembly. Then all SBASIC programs would run directly and we could also have QPC (or some other emulator) to work as a 68K native binaries on-the-fly translator (kind of what Apple did with PowerPC Macs in order to run older 68K apps) and in the future we could develop our own x86 apps.... (and take advantage of all the x86 based peripherals etc...) Not to mention that the middle-man (Dos/Win 9x/NT) will be vanish.... Imagine the speed/power potential of such a solution... :-) Now start flaming :-) Phoebus
