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Re: Apple IIGS ROM 1 or ROM 3, which is better?



On Jul 11, 2:42 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> mdj wrote:
> > On Jul 2, 11:23 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> >>With object orientation comes a surplus of indirection.  ;-)

>  From the point of view of speed, *avoidable* indirection is a
> *very* bad thing.  Memory latency is hundreds of processor
> cycles, at least.

Hey, this is comp.sys.apple2. We don't have wait-states on our memory!
We don't need no steenking caches!

Our level 1 cache is our level 2 cache is our main RAM. And that new-
fangled IIgs has thousands of KB. Enough for anybody!