🚀 go-pugleaf

> >Amiga definitely wins here.  The fastest I have seen life on the Mac is
> >about 450,000 cells/second, while the Amiga seems to do 1,200,000.
> Oops!  Make that 250,000 cells/second.  450,000 cells/second was my
> life program on the Callan Unistar 300.
> Tim Smith       USENET: sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim   Compuserve: 72257,3706

I just sat down last night and wrote a 68000 assembly language Life
routine which does 494,000 generations per second in the data-independent
mode, and averages about 600,000 generations per second in the
data-dependent mode.  This is on the Amiga's 7.2 MHz processor.
Maybe I should post it so someone can move it to the Mac?

I'm thinking of writing a general-purpose life program, complete
with cut-and-paste and library cells (like glider guns and various
flotillas), forward and back panning, true infinite plane (until
memory runs out; on a 2.5Meg Amiga, that shouldn't happen too soon.)

Oh, by the way.  I suspect that my 68000 life program will actually
run faster than the blitter when run on a 68020 Amiga; anyone have
one out there?

-tom