From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Wed Apr 29 10:06:18 2009 Message-ID: From: "Jo Even Skarstein" To: References: <49F743B1.8030803@freesbee.fr> <1240957935.9590.38.camel@joy> <49F78A7A.9020001@freesbee.fr> <1240985088.4402.13.camel@petr> <49F803C5.9050303@freesbee.fr> <1240993687.4402.60.camel@petr> <1241012321.4402.110.camel@petr> In-Reply-To: <1241012321.4402.110.camel@petr> Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib for ColdFire Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:59:51 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="ISO-8859-2"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8064.206 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8064.206 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: joska@online.no Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: From: "Petr Stehlik" Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:38 PM To: Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib for ColdFire > Jo Even Skarstein píše v St 29. 04. 2009 v 15:22 +0200: >> I really don't see the point in adapting source code or recompile for a >> new >> CPU when the virtual CPU is so powerful. The only thing you achieve when >> doing this is to complicate things, as you still need to support 68k >> binaries. > > OK. So you basically say that adapting MiNTlib for ColdFire (see the > subject of this thread) is unnecessary (or even a bad idea). No, I'm (trying to) say the opposite. On Intel hardware, the CPU is so powerful that a virtual machine is by far the most efficient solution. On a ColdFire this is not true. Jo Even