Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 02:03:48 07/23/02
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On July 22, 2002 at 11:16:39, Matthew Hull wrote: >On July 22, 2002 at 10:08:42, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>On July 21, 2002 at 17:10:27, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >> >>>Ok. I hope you are used to the terminal and have Projectbuilder, because there >>>are a few fixes to make in the Makefile an the header files. (Mr. Hyatt, when >>>you are reading this, it would be nice to have the fixes and a make darwin >>>opportunity in the next release. :) ) >> >>Actually I mailed Bob such a patch (including some PPC assembly language >>functions for speedup of bitmap stuff) a couple of months ago, but never got >>an answer. He is too busy doing other things, I'm afraid. :-) > >How much speed gain did you measure from the assembly mods? :-) Not very much; it is about 6% on my PowerBook G4. I did not write the assembly language functions myself, by the way (unfortunately I don't know PPC assembly language). The crafty sources include some PPC assembly language functions written for some C compiler running in MacOS Classic. I just took these functions and changed the syntax to the one used by gcc. Tord
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