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A look at the new MorphOS

Tom01

# 76
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 187 from 2009/9/20

Quote:

Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> IMHO there is little practical point in comparing non-SIMD performance,
> since the 970 *does* have Altivec.

Most tasks can‘t be vectorized, so comparing CPUs by their non-SIMD performance does make sense.

Tasks, which are calculating something can be vectorized.
If a Program mostly consists of the User-Interface, then Vectorization makes no Sense.
»19.03.18 - 13:44

Andreas_Wolf

# 77
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 12438 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

>> Most tasks can‘t be vectorized

> Tasks, which are calculating something can be vectorized. If a Program mostly
> consists of the User-Interface, then Vectorization makes no Sense.

Of course, 1+2 can be computed by the AltiVec unit. But vectorization is for SIMD use cases, which means the very same computation is applied to a sufficiently large number of elements. Too small a number may mean that the overhead exceeds the gain. And often, the bottleneck is not in the computation itself (but in I/O speed etc.). So I should better say that most tasks, even if vectorizable in theory, wouldn't benefit from vectorization in practice.
»19.03.18 - 14:23

JKD

# 78
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 456 from 2003/4/4

From: South of heaven

Quote:

Acill wrote:
Cant wait for this to be released! The beta on my X5000 was fantastic to use during Amiwest. I will be keeping my G5 as well for it I think, just much easier to boot into a single machine and not worry about corruption from the other OS reading the drives.

How far away are we from release Paul?
»23.03.18 - 14:50

DanicaTalos

# 79
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 446 from 2010/10/15

From: 01101110011100...

A PM G5 PCI-e Version is better. A x5000 costs horrible! A PM G5 PCI-e costs ca. 150,- - 200,-.

[ Editiert durch DanicaTalos 25.03.2018 - 17:15 ]
iBook G4 - 14" -1,42 GHz - 32MB VRAM - 1,5GB RAM - 60GB mSata - MorphOS 3.19
»25.03.18 - 07:49

Kronos

# 80
Moderator

Posts: 2502 from 2003/2/24

Quote:

JKD wrote:

How far away are we from release Paul?

I'd say about 20km, but that number may differ for you ;)
»25.03.18 - 08:32

Kronos

# 81
Moderator

Posts: 2502 from 2003/2/24

Quote:

Kronos wrote:
Quote:

JKD wrote:

How far away are we from release Paul?

I'd say about 20km, but that number may differ for you ;)

So now we know that MorphOS was traveling at about 2.5km/h !!
»25.03.18 - 16:44