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- > I just finished some new PMMU software for the Afterburner - it uses some
- > nifty features of the 68040's new cache to improve speed and reduce reliance
- > on the Falcon BUS & external FastRAM.
-
- Didn't they support copy-back mode before or what?
-
- > Remember the GEMBench results for FPU calculation? It used to be about 133%
- > which I always said looked 'funny' to say the least - well below spec.
-
- I actually wrote a longish article about GEMBench vs AB040 after I read
- some of your earlier comments in NeST. I've not yet posted that, but in
- essence it says that GEMBench's processor tests are just about completely
- worthless.
-
- For floating point GEMBench uses an autodetecting FP library, which means
- that everything is done through functions, and the FPU registers are only
- used internally in those. For simple things, like FADD etc, most of the
- time is spent accessing the stack and such...
- (It's likely that the stack accesses are what your new PMMU setup improves.)
-
- The memory test is not quite that bad, but comparing the figures between
- an ST and a Falcon doesn't really say anything at all.
-
- > With the new software, the FPU calculation is 360%!
-
- The FPU in the '040 is actually _ten_ times faster than an equal clocked
- '882 on (most of) the things it can do. For the non-simple things, which
- have to be emulated by software, it's not much faster than the '882.
- Naturally, a large part of GEMBench's FP testing uses those...
-
- > I'll be releasing the new software when it's ready...
-
- :-)
- I _really_ must find the money for an AfterBurner soon!
-
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