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Title: Aros Vision 2.7 uploaded
Post by: OlafS3 on July 15, 2014, 09:42:10 AM

Today I have uploaded 2.7

Changes:
Roms updated
MUI Royale updated
IBrowse optimized (recommendations for SSL included)
Simplemail now english by default
Digibooster Demo added
Audio software added (new Trackers)
Filetypes added or improved (f.e. new filetypes for PowerD and Amiga-E sources)
On AMOS (menu prefs) you can change between Intuition and Game extension (both use same slot)

Download;
http://www.aros-platform.de/downloads/Aros_Vision.zip

Conditions for download:
http://www.aros-platform.de/html/distribution_download.html

Title: Re: Aros Vision 2.7 uploaded
Post by: SamuraiCrow on July 15, 2014, 11:46:13 AM

With the new rom images, Blitting seems to be quite a bit faster.  I'm running it on the 68040 emulation speed on FS-UAE.

Title: Re: Aros Vision 2.7 uploaded
Post by: OlafS3 on July 15, 2014, 11:58:53 AM

Quote from: SamuraiCrow;768985

With the new rom images, Blitting seems to be quite a bit faster.  I'm running it on the 68040 emulation speed on FS-UAE.

Yes Toni Wilen has done some optimizations (expecially for real hardware)

Title: Re: Aros Vision 2.7 uploaded
Post by: wawrzon on July 15, 2014, 12:19:45 PM

actually there were bugfixes not for real hardware but rather generally for amiga display modes, in particular line drawing previously drawing beyond boundaries it was supposed to respect and fallback cpu blitting that kicked in causing unnecessary slowdowns. but it shows on real hardware the most, because winuae is faster and because hardly anyone uses amiga modes for workbench there.

i wonder if thomas richter could advise aros team on appropriate layers algorithms optimization. im particularlky reffering here to his post #21 here:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67649&page=2

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To keep it very short, besides the new functions, it is much more efficient when depth-arringing windows. V40 had an algorithm that scaled like O(n^2) in the number of overlapping windows, V45 is only O(n). Given CPU driven memory copies in some situations on rtg, this makes a noticable difference. V40 also throws fragmentation bombs at the memory system by allocating and releasing many temporary structures. V45 pools them and reuses them.

because i have an impression that aros layers lib has still similar problems.