🚀 go-pugleaf

Dennis Grant wrote:
> 
> (Maybe this already happens, but it's been a while since I installed it, so:)
> 
> Are there any plans to release processor-specific versions of Pagestream? IE,
> a 68000 version, 68000+fpu, 68030, 68030+fpu, 68040, 68040+fpu etc?
> 
> I know it adds to the complexity of the install program, but actually
> *building* the special versions is as simple as turning on the compiler
> option - you don't actually have to *write* new versions, the compiler does
> the optimising for you.
> 
> The speed increase could be dramatic. PS is no slouch now, but every little
> bit helps, right?

We have done tests to see whether it would be worth doing this and there 
is no significant speed advantage from compiling processor specific 
versions.

PageStream for Macintosh requires at least an 030, but the limitation 
was imposed on us by Apple's requirement of an 030 for its 68K Code 
Fragment Manager.

PageStream makes little use of floating point math, so an FPU version 
would not provide a speed boost either.

Regards,

Michael
SoftLogik