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Title: Which Exec?
Post by: AndrewBell on September 24, 2007, 04:56:32 PM

I'm creating a new Kickstart, but unsure whether to use Pirus' Exec 44.1 or the OS3.9 BB2 patched Exec. Are there any major differences between the 2?
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Title: Re: Which Exec?
Post by: AmigaMance on September 24, 2007, 05:28:43 PM

 I can not provide you any technical information but from what i know, they are much similar and compatible to each other. Exec 44.1 is the fastest.
 

Title: Re: Which Exec?
Post by: jj on September 24, 2007, 05:31:50 PM

From memory, and Im sure Piru will correct me here, his exec solves a problem with some versions of cybergrpahix.

Title: Re: Which Exec?
Post by: TiredOLife on September 24, 2007, 05:43:15 PM

I recently did what your about to do.
I found the exec by Piru much swifter.
I would also recommend a read of the guide provided by AmigaMance.
I think I have done almost all that was recommended in that guide, and there is a significant increase in speed on my system.

Title: Re: Which Exec?
Post by: downix on September 24, 2007, 06:14:05 PM

Ya know, I've never figured out how to switch out my exec.  How does one do it?

Title: Re: Which Exec?
Post by: Piru on September 24, 2007, 06:35:31 PM

@JJ

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From memory, and Im sure Piru will correct me here, his exec solves a problem with some versions of cybergrpahix.

Actually it doesn't fix any problem with CGX. It does include separate patcher app to fix bug in older CGX versions, however. The patcher app is also usable with OS 3.9 exec, naturally.

Title: Re: Which Exec?
Post by: AndrewBell on September 24, 2007, 06:52:58 PM

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downix wrote:
Ya know, I've never figured out how to switch out my exec.  How does one do it?

Save the kickstart to disk, split it into the component parts, update files as necessary and then recombine. Tools such as Exec44, Romsplit, Remus and BlizKick contain the necessary docs and patches.
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Title: Re: Which Exec?
Post by: AndrewBell on September 24, 2007, 06:55:28 PM

@Piru

As someone who knows the inner workings of Exec quite intimately, what are the differences between your version and the officially patched version?
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Title: Re: Which Exec?
Post by: Piru on September 24, 2007, 07:20:57 PM

I don't know exec 45 well enough to be able to comment in detail.

From public documentation I know that exec 45 added some new functions such as NewMinList (totally and utterly pointless addition if you ask me!), and AVL tree routines (again IMO such thing doesn't belong to exec).

Exec 45 does, however, make use of the AVL tree functions in the memory pools (AllocPooled, FreePooled etc), and thus has faster memory pools (at least in certain conditions).

Title: Re: Which Exec?
Post by: Jose on September 24, 2007, 10:00:09 PM

I'm just using the even faster good old 40.68 with BB2(SKIPROMUPDATES "exec.library"), any disadvantage to this combination apart from the obvious slower mem pools (wich in practice don't do much diference anyway) ? Never messed with exec's details much...

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Title: Re: Which Exec?
Post by: AmigaMance on September 24, 2007, 11:17:10 PM

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I'm just using the even faster good old 40.68

 Huh? Faster than Exec 44.1?

Title: Re: Which Exec?
Post by: AndrewBell on September 25, 2007, 04:12:40 AM

On the subject or recompiling Kickstart, is it possible to add a CD-ROM filesystem and mountlist to enable booting from CD? I saw it mentioned in a Google search result but can't find it again.
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Title: Re: Which Exec?
Post by: Jose on September 25, 2007, 03:09:24 PM

" Huh? Faster than Exec 44.1?"

Well, I though it was, but then again it's been so long I've read about that I don't even remember well, maybe it was just a comparision between BB2 and 40.68.

Any benchmarks ?