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Re: The FULL version of Roadshow is NOW available to buy
« on: January 05, 2013, 04:06:17 AM »
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But anyway it's weird that you get faster rates with Miami than Netstack. On my MorphOS machines Netstack is faster than MiamiDX or 68k AmiTCP...

I never heard of Netstack before.  Is that running native PPC code?
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Re: The FULL version of Roadshow is NOW available to buy
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2013, 04:46:44 PM »
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A PPC native Roadshow will likely do better, because the TCP/IP stack still spends a lot of time copying data from one memory buffer to another one. The copying code which Roadshow uses is the fastest 68k implementation I know of, and it doesn't seem to do too poorly in emulated form. Still, a PPC native copying routine would likely do a lot better.

PPC chips are not actually very good at copying speed.  So if you got any advantage from a PPC native implementation it would likely be due to other reasons.

Another way of saying it is: JITs work really really well at small loops that execute over and over again millions of times.  They have a lot of trouble executing "random" code that does not run in a loop, or only executes a few times in each loop.

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Because of contractual obligations, however, I am unable to provide a PPC native variant of Roadshow for MorphOS...

Google Translate version: Hyperion will sue my a$$ off! :D
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