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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 68010 Upgrade
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Date: 14 Dec 87 18:42:22 GMT
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In article <843@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
|>        ...  Once I had the 68010 in, the overall speedup was about
|>3%.  It is possilbe to write programs with looping constructions
|>that do take advantage of the 68010's limited instruction caching
|>ability; unfortunatelty compilers don't usually generate such code.
|>If you do a lot of coding of your own at the assembly level, then
|>the'010 could be worth the effort.

One of the features of the Lattice 4.0 compiler is that it generates
the optimal '010 instructions where possible. This make increase your
mileage another couple of percent. In general the '010 does not speed
you up too much. 


--Chuck McManis
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