Re: [hatari-devel] DSP for Previous

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On lauantai 04 heinäkuu 2015, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> Le 03/07/2015 23:33, Thomas Huth a écrit :
> > The "volatiles" are likely a remainder from the times when the DSP run
> > in its own thread. But since this support has been removed quite a
> > while ago already, I think we could also remove the "volatiles" in
> > the DSP code of Hatari.
> 
> I didn't know there was a thread version of the dsp code, but volatile
> is indeed useful only when content can be changed "externally" by
> another process/thread or hardware.

Hatari DSP emulation code originated from Aranym, which threads
it's DSP code so that it can run parallel to CPU emulation.
However, it was so inaccurate [1] that to my knowledge there
wasn't any Falcon programs that worked with it.


	- Eero

[1] I'm not completely sure whether issue was just DSP emulation
accuracy in isolation, or also synchronizing it to CPU, Aranym
CPU emulation not being cycle accurate and emulating mainly 040
instead of 030 (I think main reason for emulating 040 is MMU,
Aranym runs OSes using MMU and 040 one is easier to emulate)...