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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 16:14:59
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| Woah!
Something's happening!
Or am I getting over excited?
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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 16:26:51
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| More speed improvements for an already efficient OS. 
The article is very good reading for people interested in technical details. It's great to read about these improvements and that virtual memory is now finally integrated into the OS.
So when can I use the new memory system on my A1? Articles like these makes me wish I was on the beta list.
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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 16:27:51
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Or am I getting over excited? |
You are getting overexcited. Just read the "specialists" words some days later and you'll see what I mean. _________________ Games, programs, reviews
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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 16:37:52
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| @Rogue
Thank you for the well written and informative update.
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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 16:47:33
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| Nice. I have one question though. It seems to be possible to use virtual mem e.g. in form of a file on disk now.
Are there any plans to support memory mapped files now under OS4 ? (e.g. the dos.library allowing you to "allocate" a mem image from disk ?) That would be great. _________________ AmigaOne XE G3/933/VIA/FM801/R200 (fixed), G3SE/600/Voodoo3/Sil680/RTL8139/SBLive! (noiseless!) µA1-MK2/G3/933/R200/CMI8738 XE/G4 (broken 7450/800)
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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 16:49:57
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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 16:53:12
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Or am I getting over excited? |
Nope. Go nuts. Shave your head. Now is the time to freak out.  _________________ ExecSG Team Lead
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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 16:57:45
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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 16:59:20
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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 17:01:50
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| Reading this has me very impressed Hyperion has done it again! Great work guys! 
Even more impressive is that it says when booting up Workbench with this new memory system, it should be using less than 2KB in all!!! That's pretty much awesome!
Hyperion? When to see a video footage of this performance from the new memory system?  Last edited by Helge on 14-Jul-2006 at 05:11 PM.
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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 17:12:03
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| @ Betatesters
Is the speed increase in general use really noticeable?
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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 17:24:02
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Even more impressive is that it says when booting up Workbench with this new memory system, it should be using less than 2KB in all!!! That's pretty much awesome! |
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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 17:29:27
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| I think that was only an illustration of how impressive the new memory system is. It's mentioned on the last part of that article from Hyperion, guys... _________________ Helge K. Leaving the Amiga in favour of a PC..
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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 17:30:58
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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 17:33:33
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| Edit: Double Post- Last edited by Ami603 on 14-Jul-2006 at 05:34 PM.
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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 17:33:33
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| @Helge:
Read it again carefully, it doesn't say anything about memory consumption after booting, it just says that small allocations (below 8kb) takes a lot less time than before, thus making the whole system faster.As an example he provided the amount of such allocations during the boot process, allowing you to figure the speed increase.The memory consumption will stay the same. _________________ Cuida tus piedras gordas.
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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 17:34:05
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Did you have algebra in school? Paid attention, too?
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The time for a memory allocation is now in the order of a few microseconds. This is especially true for small allocation (below 8 KB). To give you an idea: When the system has booted up to Workbench, there have been already 40000 allocations to the global memory pool below 2 KB. |
How do you get 2kb as result out of this calculation??? |
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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 17:34:34
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| @Helge
I think you should read it again. _________________ AmigaOne-XE G3 OS 4. A4000 PPC A1200 PPC
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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 17:34:38
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Of course we should by now alredy know that there are no other specialists but Hyperion, and also that the world is black and white and... yada yada... :-p _________________ Indigo 3D Lounge, my second home. The Illusion of Choice | Am*ga
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Re: AmigaOS 4.0 new memory system revisited Posted on 14-Jul-2006 17:37:37
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is hard to notice a speed increasing at this state even bacause many things are not optimised yet _________________ http://www.amigasoft.net
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