Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!tektronix!tekig5!wayneck
From: wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Self-modifying code
Message-ID: <3084@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 3 Aug 88 06:16:10 GMT
References: <5254@june.cs.washington.edu> <76700032@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <1189@ficc.UUCP>
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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In article <1189@ficc.UUCP>, peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> 
> Here's a way to decide: you write the fastest LIFE program you can
> on the 68030, using the "dumb" algorithm (calculate all cells every cycle).
> Allow for clock rate differences.
> 
> The Blitter can be used to pump LIFE along at a bit over 20 generations
> per second. The 68000 can't hope to catch up. How's the 68030?

Okay, so how does blitter help if the cell array is the frame buffer.  I
mean it seems kind of a waste to work in an array and then to move it 
out to the frame buffer.  

                                            Wayne Knapp