Question To A Dev With A Devboard..

[Jarska333]

Have any of you devs, with GP32 and GP2X experience, tried coding and running some basic benchmark program, on both of these machines? I'd be curious to know, whether the GP2X main (?) CPU actually is as/more powerfull at, say 100MHZ, as/then the CPU in GP32 at 100MHZ?

 

[reaper79]

Have any of you devs, with GP32 and GP2X experience, tried coding and running some basic benchmark program, on both of these machines? I'd be curious to know, whether the GP2X main (?) CPU actually is as/more powerfull at, say 100MHZ, as/then the CPU in GP32 at 100MHZ?

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I would wager that the benchmark result would really depend on the type of benchmark process that you are using. Whether you are looking at number crunching on a per clock basis, or are doing a graphic benchmark.

Cheers!

 

[Jarska333]

Just how much MIPS the single CPU can do running ar 100MHZ, compared to GP32's CPU.

 

[craigix]

It does not look like there is a massive difference, but the screen is the right way up this time render wise

 

[Jarska333]

So the problem Reesy had with water-transparency effects in Sonic is goner? (And other games, presumably) I seem to recall it took few MHZ to go around it... Good sign. I understand the RAM is faster, allso...

 

[Squidge]

Memory bandwidth is higher, so memory intensive tasks should be quicker. CPU speed is up, and we don't know what it'll clock to yet. Also, there's two of'em

 

[Jarska333]

Was wondering, if it was architecturally different from GP32's ARM, so that 100MHZ would yield different computing power, for better or worse...

 

[Squidge]

Not really, it's still an ARM9, just at a faster speed.

But we do have two of them

 

[Aimless_E]

Quick question (thats probably been answered already) the arm9 processors are 32bit right? So what are the chances of emulation software like dosbox or wine running on the gp2x?

 

[Squidge]

Dosbox is possible, but don't know how fast it would be.

[W]ine
s
[N]ot an
[E]mulator

 

[lucoxade]

Or bochs

 

[Cahaz]

WinE

Windows Emulator.

 

[Jarska333]

Isn't it frontend or something? Or what you call them...

What do get, when you combine the best qualities from WinCE, WinME and WinNT?

WinCEMENT.

 

[lucoxade]

What are the chances of getting WinCE to run? Theoreticaly of course, putting it to practise would not be legit.
Still, its a nice challenge

 

[Yuglooc]

Dosbox is possible, but don't know how fast it would be.

[W]ine
s
[N]ot an
[E]mulator

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I thought it was
[W]ine
s
[N]ot an CPU
[E]mulator

 

[Sonic-NKT]

wince should not be a problem at all if you have access to it, the question is the legal site of it. we would all have to pay for it. i dont think this is worth it.
gph could have chosen wince for the OS, but they took linux cause its not that expensive and you have to license anything