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Subject: Re: Of topic to topic

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 14:51:16 07/07/00

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On July 07, 2000 at 16:26:48, Marc van Hal wrote:

>Instead of breaking my head on chesspositions I started playing other games
>On a nemulator (Nitendo64 simulator)
>Actualy while playing and seeing all these fantastic graphics I was thiking
>would it be possible to use this nemulator (64bits program on a 32bits
>operatingsytem) also for chessprograms I think this could be a big help
>especialy if you can make it so that the chessprogram doesn't find windows
>Or am I dead wrong here?

The emulator doesn't give you something for free.

Your PC uses the x86 instruction set and the Nintendo 64 uses the MIPS
instruction set. To run N64 games, your PC has to convert the MIPS instructions
into x86 instructions. This is such a time-consuming process that running a MIPS
program on a PC is several times slower than running an equivalent PC program on
the PC.

BTW, Windows does not make programs run slower. Well, maybe 1 or 2 percent, but
that's it.

-Tom



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