[A83] Re: General programming questions
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[A83] Re: General programming questions
>Reason its like that is because you have only a few instructions but the
>ones available are fast, often taking only one clock cycle to complete.
>The reson a Gameboy is quite fast even though it has a slow (main)
>processor is because it has _a_lot_ of extra hardware to help with things
>like putting out sprites, playing sound, general effects and such, so the
>processor has to spend very little time doing these things.
>On a calc you have no hardware like this and has to do everything yourself
>in the processor.
The extra hardware is like the difference between software emulation on
games and using an accelerator. The processor can either take the
instruction 'rotate object' and send it to the GPU, or run transform
matrices on hundreds of points. Guess which is faster.
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