[Coco] Speed comparison of Coco emulators

Kandur k at qdv.pw
Wed Aug 13 21:45:47 EDT 2014


Hopefully in a few days, my Coco-3 will be upgraded to 512k.
Then will make a comparison of the times it took to assemble
the aforementioned task with Vcc_v1.43 beta on a slow and a fast PC.

Kandur

Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 6:05:43 PM, you wrote:
> Any emulator on a remotely modern PC will complete any task much more
> quickly than a coco 3 (unless artificially limited for emulation
> purposes).  Unrestricted MESS or Vcc is in the realms of hundreds of times
> quicker than real hardware.
> On Aug 13, 2014 9:00 PM, "Kandur" <k at qdv.pw> wrote:

>> To reduce the mumber of variables, I'm only comparing the time it takes to
>> assemble
>> the os9boot code for NitrOs-9 L2. I'm aware that the speed depends on the
>> host machine's power a lot.
>> Yet, I'd like to have a rough idea, how the various emulators being used
>> these days
>> running under Linux, Mac and Windows stack up against each other in the
>> speed department.
>> Does the saying  still holds true, that all emulators take a much longer
>> time to finish
>> the same job, then a Coco-3 with 512k ram?

>> Kandur

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