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Re: How many times must Apple make such DRASTIC architecture changes?
- Subject: Re: How many times must Apple make such DRASTIC architecture changes?
- From: "josephoswaldgg@hotmail.com" <josephoswald@gmail.com>
- Date: 14 Jun 2005 12:07:35 -0700
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Tim Cutts wrote:
>
> Absolutely. Integer performance is all that matters for the vast
> majority of desktop consumer applications (games might be an exception,
> these days).
>
Most importantly for comp.sys.apple2, integer performance determines
the speed with which we can emulate a 6502.
After all, we have to put all those billions of cycles of CPU time per
second to good use.