Re: [hatari-devel] New version of WinUAE's cpu core

[Thomas Huth <th.huth@xxxxxx>]

Am Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:06:16 +0100
schrieb Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Le 24/11/2014 20:02, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> >
> > If the new core were in separate directory, it could be added right
> > away alongside current ones and selected at config time.  This
> > would make testing and fixing things easier now that it's in
> > working shape.
> >
> > Once it works as well or better than current WinUAE core, latter
> > can be removed.
> >
> 
> Hi
> 
> I don't feel like keeping a third cpu core directory into Hatari
> sources ; they share some similar code, but some variables with old
> winuae's core now have different meaning, so it would mean more
> #ifdef in several places and not really possible to choose between
> the 2 Winuae cpu core at run time anyway.
> 
> If the only option it to choose the winuae cpu core at compile time, 
> then we can as well compare this new version with the one in Hatari 
> 1.8.0 ; not much has changed cpu wise since Hatari 1.8.0 was
> released, so it gives a point of reference to compare with the new
> core.

+1

.... having already two cores in the repository is already more than
enough, with three cores, things would get really messy, I think.

 Thomas