Speed rankings of Next Gen hardware

[wawrzon]

If you use OS3 API then it is compatible with OS4 and MorphOS. Sometimes you have to tweak your code because you may have to tell the operating system that this code is PPC native now. (*)

Only restriction is that there is no support for BCPL anymore and hardware resources no longer exist.

However if you are supporting OS3 I dont see any reason to make PPC native compiles. You are only wasting your time and adds complexity (*). You can still use most of new MorphOS APIs from 68k code if you need it.

So I would just consider PPC native builds as an unnecessary micro optimization.

*) In Magellan porting project those issues escalated. The 68k compile works just fine on all platforms but things were getting worse when we had to get all sublibaries working on all platforms. OS4 library system is totally incompatible with OS3 and MorphOS at source code level and  MorphOS libraries are sometimes incompatible to OS3 at source code level. So great amount of glue code had to be written and if/when AROS port is done there will be more...

very good point