Author: Jo Even (213-187-172-45.dd.nextgentel.com)
Date: 01-23-2002 00:42
FatRakoon wrote:
> Lets be honest here, but Atari Software is
> pathetically slow, and most of the time
> its down to the O/S and its routines...
That's not quite correct. Most applications spend most of their time idle, and when not, they certainly don't spend much time calling the OS. The OS is fast enough (atleast when we're talking about MiNT and MagiC), what's lacking is raw CPU power.
> We need more speed, so perhaps its about
> time the O/S went through a major overhaul?
No. It's better to spend that effort on writing new applications.
> How about re-writing Magic, and including
> NVDI into the routines? - bang, we have a
MagiC's VDI is actually a subset of NVDI, so it should be fast enough... It's doesn't have a GDOS though.
> very fast O/S that is at least double the
> speed of normal.
Definitely not.
> Then there is Disk Accessing... Its shit,
> and thats being nice to it. What about
Disk access is one of the things that makes MiNT very fast in the real world ;-) I've never been impressed with the speed of this under TOS or MagiC (even with cache), but MiNT has been really good at this the last two years.
> adding the Koboldroutines to speed up the
> disk accessing?
I don't think so. These are fast because they're just a subset of what you need to make a complete filesystem. If you want a faster filesystem, get a better one. Like ext2.
