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Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6214
12 Mar 2019 15:41


MartinTomas Steffen wrote:

Will Vampir V2 end with Core 2.11, or are you still working on upgrades ?

The GOLD 2.xx branch will continue to get upgrades and improvements.
GOLD 2.12 is in preparation.


MartinTomas Steffen

Posts 61
12 Mar 2019 16:14


Thanks, good news


Michael Nurney

Posts 283
12 Mar 2019 18:35


Excellent news:)


Lord Aga
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 119
12 Mar 2019 18:52


Not bad for a bunch of guys who don't do anything, eh? :)


Sean Sk

Posts 488
12 Mar 2019 23:00


Good to hear that Gold 2.xx will see continued development. Choice is good and Gold 2 will be the branch I will stick with for my V600.


Marc Merz

Posts 2
13 Mar 2019 12:32


Hello Gunnar,

what innovations/improvements can we expect with Gold 2.12?


Przemyslaw Tkaczyk

Posts 155
14 Mar 2019 09:21


Well, for starters, 124 MIPS experience, perhaps? :)

This is beta 2.12 clocked at 92MHz (x13) flashed on V600.


Andrew Miller

Posts 352
14 Mar 2019 10:21


Nice. One question, how has the chip speed gone up 4.5x, or is that just a glitch in the benchmark?


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6214
14 Mar 2019 10:52


Andrew Miller wrote:

Nice. One question, how has the chip speed gone up 4.5x, or is that just a glitch in the benchmark?

Sysinfo chipmem test works like this.
1) PRG does memory access to chipmem.

The original chipmem is not faster for us than the A600
But the program instruction also need to be for this test.

Lets make a simple example, cleart some chip memory

LOOP
  clr.L (a0)+
  dbra  D0,LOOP
--
The loop code is 6 byte long and clear 4 byte per iteration
The original A600 with chipmem only will READ 6 byte instruction and write 4 Byte per iteration.
The VAMP will do the instruction read for free.
Also the DBRA is nearly free.
This is why the efficiency is much better on VAMP.


Andrew Miller

Posts 352
14 Mar 2019 18:00


Awesome, thanks.


Jonny Pulli

Posts 50
15 Mar 2019 15:14


What I am most interested in is AGA mode with Wampire 500V2+ and if it comes .......

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