Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 05:30:13 10/30/02
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On October 29, 2002 at 14:23:10, Roy Eassa wrote:
>On October 29, 2002 at 12:28:10, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On October 29, 2002 at 11:38:30, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>On October 29, 2002 at 06:13:57, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 29, 2002 at 06:07:57, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Christophe what are you planning to do with CT in the near future to take
>>>>advantage of this new 200 Mhz palm operating the new OS 5?
>>>>
>>>>http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,106364,00.asp
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>As soon as possible the core of the chess engine will be recompiled in native
>>>ARM mode.
>>>
>>>This will give probably a 150 elo points increase.
>>>
>>>...Well only if you buy a PalmOS 5 handheld.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Christophe
>>
>>This is great news since the new OS 5 offers several improvements on the
>>existing version including support for microprocessors with ARM cores.
>>
>>"The principle feature of Palm OS 5 is that it is the first Palm operating
>>system which runs on the ARM family of RISC [reduced instruction set computer]
>>microprocessors which are anywhere from two to 30 times faster than the existing
>>68K microprocessors that Palm OS today runs on," said Nagel. Plus very soon
>>there will be faster palms running up to 400 Mhz next year. This means that
>>Chess Tiger could even reach up to 2400 in Elo rating points.
>>
>>Pichard.
>
>
>You will not see fully ARM-native apps until Palm OS 6 (Palm OS 5 doesn't
>support them).
Fully native, not. But it's not important.
In PalmOS 5, critical sections of code can be compiled in ARM native mode.
So it is already possible in PalmOS 5 to take full advantage of the improved
computing power.
No need to wait for PalmOS 6.
Christophe
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