[Coco] gcc-coco revisited

[David]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:57:30PM -0600, Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 11:19 PM 11/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >In a message dated 11/3/03 10:24:20 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> >dbree at duo-county.com writes:
> >
> >> Yes, that's true.  I don't know how fast some of these systems are.  My
> >>  trouble is that I am in Linux all the time.  I rarely go into Winders,
> >>  where I have the Vavasour emulator.  My P-166 just can't handle mess
> >>  under Xwindows.  It's way slower than a Coco.
> 
> It makes you wonder if they are using a BASIC compiler to write 
> M.E.S.S.  ;)   Ok, that's not fair, but it's true that the speed difference 
> in Vavasour's emulator and the CoCo modes in M.E.S.S. are much 
> different.  I only hope the M.E.S.S. team doesn't keep slowing things down.

I sort of suspect that the reason that MESS is so much slower than
Vavasour's is that MESS has to try to deal with _ALL_ machines whereas
Vavasour's can concentrate, so to speak, on one single machine.