Author: Rodney Topor
Date: 19:36:55 07/03/03
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On July 02, 2003 at 22:09:53, Christophe Theron wrote: >On July 02, 2003 at 16:25:47, Michael Conway wrote: > >>To take advantage of the new ARM Palms running OS 5, many software developers >>have programmed native ARM code (ARMlets) to replace their calculation-intensive >>Motorolla 68k (OS 4) functions. As this circumvents the Palm 68k interpreter >>(PACE) built into OS 5, performance increases in ARM processor Palms have been >>enormous. >> >>Are there plans to upgrade Chess Tiger for Palm in this manner? Would it be >>very difficult to do? > >Yes, and I'm working on it. > >Yes, it is difficult to do. ARMlets are toys, not real programs. For example you >cannot have global variables in ARMlets. I don't understand this. I thought ARM was a more modern, more flexible architecture than M68k. For example, it has no 32KB jump limit. Why should it be harder to program for than the older architecture? Rodney Topor
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