Mac 68K Speedup tips here — #25

Post #25 by Quadraman

Source Forum	Mac 68K Speedup tips here — #25
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Fri, 7 Sep 2007 - 22:55
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/mac-68k-speedup-tips-here.9710/

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Speed Doubler alleviates the problem of the slow emulation built into the 601 based machines.

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I've long wondered how Speed Doubler managed to do what it did. I can understand substituting various function calls with optimized algorithms that execute faster. But to achieve that marked an improvement would mean Apple's designs were bad to the point of incompetence.

I think it was because Apple still had some Quadras on the market concurrently with the Nubus PPC machines and making the new machines blow the old ones out of the water under emulation would have meant Apple getting stuck with a lot of leftover 040 machines.