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Re: OS4 Classic & 68k
« on: April 24, 2008, 11:07:29 PM »
The 68k is halted and never sent any interrupts to wake it back up.

This is done because if the 68k was used, they would both be sharing memory and you'd have to flush the caches whenever either processor wrote to memory that the other processor might use, which causes a massive, massive performance drop.

It is simply much, much faster to run both 68k and PPC software entirely on the PPC.
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