danoon wrote:0.74.25 Aug 25, 2011
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The new recompiler improved Doom performance by 50% and increase PCP Bench by 2x. […]
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0.74.25 Aug 25, 2011
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The new recompiler improved Doom performance by 50% and increase PCP Bench by 2x.
There were a lot of changes in this release, a new soft FPU, HAL's new paging patch, and a recompiling core, so feel free to test your favorite games and let me know.
Hi, 😀
First of all, excellent work! I'll admit I'm not a very dedicated or experienced gamer nor a heavy user of Java (big understatement), but it's still awesome to see this. In other words, I don't have a lot of old games to test on this (only a handful) nor heavy motivation either.
My favorite test case is Paku Paku (original), esp. since both the original arcade Pac-Man and the original IBM PC (which Paku Paku supports!) each just turned 30 years old.
Anyways, I don't know why, I felt like installing Java on (Lucid) PuppyLinux (32-bit) yesterday, probably just for laughs to test jDOSBox. Then I remembered Anton Ertl's old Doom benchmark ("doom -timedemo demo3") and results for various cpus, so I tested that for comparison.
However, the main deal is that I must've tested your old version yesterday because now today when I try again (Win64, then back to PuppyLinux) it's much slower, not faster (oddly). So I dunno. I mean, it doesn't matter to me, but it's still a little odd, esp. after your recent "improvements", heh. 😕 I could swear I was getting "PentiumMMX/250" speeds (600-ish realtics) yesterday but only slow "Pentium/60" (1800-ish realtics) today.
Anyways, nice job overall, no complaints, just having fun seeing some random but cool games here and there. 😁
EDIT: Ertl's site isn't loading now, for some odd reason, but Google Cache has it. Honestly, I'm not sure he's updated the results in a few years, dunno, so it's probably moot.