When will we have full speed SNES?

by **sponge** » Apr 10, 2003 @ 1:17pm

All Palmboy does is pack the ROM into a PDB. When it was released, there were no Palms that COULDN'T use anything but the 2 mentioned formats.

by **zinger** » Apr 11, 2003 @ 3:47am

by **Dave H** » Apr 13, 2003 @ 7:58pm

by **James S** » Apr 13, 2003 @ 9:07pm

And this is what I've been saying.

by **zinger** » Apr 13, 2003 @ 9:11pm

I'm not disagreeing that a poorly written asm emu would be slower than a well written C version. I look at the fastest PC emus and they all at least have an asm core. Znes, the fastest I've tried, is completely x86 asm. Yes, I'm assuming based on the PC versions that optimized asm might get us reasonable speed with sound on the current PPC hardware, that could not be achieved using C alone.

by **James S** » Apr 13, 2003 @ 9:19pm

But it's simply ignorant to say "let's make it ASM, it will be faster." That's what we're trying to say. Someone skilled in ASM will be able to write more efficient code than a C++ compiler will output simply because ASM allows a more direct access to the actual steps that the CPU takes. But that doesn't mean ASM is faster. It doesn't even mean that ASM is more often faster. It simple means a skilled programmer was able to take more control of the processing steps. The right tool for the right job.

by **zinger** » Apr 13, 2003 @ 10:39pm

by **James S** » Apr 13, 2003 @ 10:43pm

by **Dave H** » Apr 13, 2003 @ 10:59pm

by **zinger** » Apr 13, 2003 @ 11:11pm

When will we have full speed SNES?

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