Author: stuart taylor
Date: 17:54:58 05/23/02
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On May 23, 2002 at 16:19:49, Chris Carson wrote: >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! Exciting? maybe! but will things ever get any better after that (for handhelds)? S.Taylor
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