Re: [MiNT] Calling GEM from within a signal handler

[Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@mi.com.pl>]

Hi,

> On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 06:26:45PM +0200, Konrad Kokoszkiewicz wrote:
> > Of course, I realize that, but this is not what is being discussed.
> 
> You gave the example without mentioning the drawbacks, that's why I did
> that.

Drawbacks didn't seem important to me because of three reasons:

1) it wasn't the theme of the discuss
2) the penalty is big only when DATA/BSS are big. When these segments
   are zero, no copying takes place.
3) there are always some drawbacks...

> > And, btw, since MiNT seems to be mostly used on MMU equipped machines
> > (Falcons, TTs, clones), perhaps it could be advantageous to think of
> > memory virtualization on 68030+ (keeping the old way for 68000 machines as
> > long as it is possible).
> 
> Well, I haven't read anything from Michael White (IIRC) since his
> initial post, but AFAIR he was going to enhance MMU support, so maybe
> this could be done in this process as well.

Yes, I wonder what is happening there too...

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