Author: Chris Carson
Date: 13:19:49 05/23/02
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On May 23, 2002 at 15:31:12, Christophe Theron wrote: >On May 23, 2002 at 14:48:08, J. C. Boco wrote: > >>On May 23, 2002 at 11:17:29, Roy Eassa wrote: >> >>> >>>Now that Palm is migrating to the faster CPUs that Pocket PC uses, are you >>>planning to abandon developing Chess Tiger for Pocket PC and just stick with >>>Chess Tiger for Palm OS? >> >> >>I would like to add a question. Given the StrongArm processors in Palms will be >>available later this year, when will you have a StrongArm-Native ChessTiger for >>Palm? > > >I don't know. As soon as I get the necessary tools (compiler, IDE), but they are >not ready at this time. > > > >> How much slower will a non-native version be? > >I don't know. It is possible that Chess Tiger running on a StrongARM emulating a >DragonBall is as fast as on a real DragonBall. PACE (the DragonBall emulator in >PalmOS 5) is only 80Kb in size and from what I read is very efficient. > >The speed of the emulator is not the only issue. The OS APIs are going to be >MUCH faster, because the new OS is written in native StrongARM. And Chess Tiger >uses the OS heavily to deal with hash tables (it is not possible to have direct >access to big chunks of memory under the current version of PalmOS, so I have to >call an OS API each time I need to access the hash table, that is on every >node). > >I guess the native StrongARM version of Tiger will be 6 to 10 times faster, but >it's just a guess. It could be more, not only because the clock runs faster >(bigger MHz number) but also because on the ARM architecture you need less clock >cycles to process one instruction (it's a RISC). > > > > Christophe I am excited about this. A 2300+ master to carry around in my pocket! Thanks Christophe, keep up the great work and great products!
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