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Re: Jace. it is stable.
On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 9:01:45 AM UTC-5, Marc S Ressl wrote:
> Hello there,
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> congratulations on achieving that milestone!! I think I understand what this
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> means, although my project is still quite far away from where I want to be
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> :-).
Your project is exciting and awesome and I can't wait to see where OpenEmulator goes next! :-D Now that I hit this milestone I can try to brave the waters to cross-compile it.
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> In regard to Java, let me point out two things. First, I am writing OE in
> C++. And second, under special circumstances Java is faster than C++
Both things are true. Actually, in raw computation Java is a little slower in some cases but only slightly. In reality, the JIT runtime does a fantastic job of finding the hotspots of activity and optimizing them on the fly to run incredibly fast. Jace was designed to allocate and keep as many objects as possible so that the garbage collector doesn't have to chime in much at all. The memory consumption is fairly stable. After boot the only thing you can do that will consume a large chunk of ram is throwing a lot of memory to the RamFactor. The heatmap feature probably uses a fair chunk of memory also. The rest of it is pretty tame.
The overall goal was to write a well-structured emulator that serves as documentation for how this old stuff worked. By implementing everything according to datasheets (for things like the 6522 and 6551 chips), it makes for a good starting point for someone else to piece together other efforts without having to start from scratch. I like AppleWin for what it is, and it is rather nice for an emulator. However, and it could just be a C++ thing, looking at the code makes my head hurt.
> I think the flames have been extinguished now :-).
Oh, it's a debate without end because everyone is bound to have their own opinion. But there are far more important things to worry about than software platform choices of a solitary developer. Case in point: What is for dinner tonight? That is a much more important concern. ;-) I don't think it is a good topic for this forum as it doesn't apply to 8-bit apple computers, unless you're talking about VM2. (and before anyone asks, no jace will never run in VM2 -- that would be silly)
-B