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Re: Petunia web site updated
« on: October 06, 2002, 11:41:26 PM »
We never claimed our MMU approach was faster, in fact it most likely is slower.

(Although the net-effect will not be very important.)

That's not the point however.

The idea behind the MMU approach is to leave the ABI/API unpolluted by the emulation technology.

Once the system is fully PPC native and all your apps and games are PPC native, you'd still be stuck with your legacy  baggage in the ABI/API.

This is called thinking ahead. We're not going to go for short-term fixes.

Another reason is that it obviates the need to insert emulation traps into the source-code.
 

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Re: Petunia web site updated
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2002, 07:33:06 AM »
>Instead you have legacy-supporting baggage *in the >system* to support this. Somehow I think having >baggage in transition-apps is better than baggage in >the new system.

It's clear that neither you nor Kronos understand what I'm trying to say here because you lack the necessary background information.

The idea is exactly to avoid baggage in the system.

I'll leave it at that.