Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1193 from 2003/2/24
From: Helsinki, Finland
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it will at best achieve a small fraction of the performance they claim.
Also remember many of the previous "speed tests" have had a highly optimized Natami-specific version, versus a totally unoptimized "general, any platform" version, and then claim (f.ex.) that "Natami is faster than PowerPC in certain operations"
I remember seeing some FPS statistics of a shooter, with "general SDL version" running on PowerPC, againist a highly optimized, Natami-specific version.
Don't get me wrong. There's absolutely nothing wrong with optimizing code, even in platform-specific way (considering you have the "generic SDL version anyway), but claiming that software optimizations "prove" that hardware is better than other (with unoptimized code) is total bs.
