Subject: Re: [stella] z26 linux port snapshot From: Julian Squires <tek@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:44:14 -0400 |
Hi. On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 03:28:52PM +0000, rufbo1@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Forgive my ignorance here, but what's stopping you from decompiling > the asm into relatively standard C and recompiling for LinuxPPC (okay, > YDL now) and possibly later for OS X? I realize it'd be much, much > slower, but how close is Moore's Law to catching other architectures > up to acceptable performance on high end machines? Might be neat to > at least have z26 running on a dual G5... ;^) It's theoretically possible but practically very tricky. Even converting the assembler from MASM to NASM took a lot of care, from what I can tell. I was considering translating it to PPC asm (or portable C) manually, but the size of the file and the number of macros makes it a fairly imposing task, unfortunately. I'm sure that powerpc machines will be getting a bit more attention anyway now with the Stella maintainer hanging around here. (BTW: Linux on PPC is a lot more than just YDL.) Cheers. -- Julian Squires ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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