Re: MiNA

[Yves Pelletier <ypelletier@cmc.doe.ca>]

On Mon, 23 Oct 1995, Simon Kagedal wrote:

> I'd really like some kind of replacement AES... (though I read that the
> new version of Geneva works together with MiNT... has anyone tried this
> with luck?)

I tried the new Geneva with MiNT a few days ago. It works, but I was
disappointed to see that Geneva eats up an awful lot of CPU. On the
surface, it looks like a "busy idling" type of problem. Gembench CPU
benchmarks under Geneva are slower than under AES 4.1; what's worse, the
FPU benchmark under Geneva+MiNT caused my TT to freeze up solid. The FPU
problem did not happen under AES 4.x or under Geneva alone.  There were a
few other, smaller problems, some of which may be just a matter of set-up
fine-tuning.  After my initial disappointment, I don't think I'll bother
using Geneva with MiNT.  I might use it as a stand-alone program.  It's
still a pretty good AES replacement in several respects, but the support
given to MiNT, IMO, seems half-hearted. 

Yves
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