1. Is Euphoria Fast Enough for DOOM?
I'm really thinking about porting DOOM's source code to Euphoria. Before I
start, do you think Euphoria would be able to run the game fast enough? Or
am I just dreaming?
Peter Millan
robotnik at optusnet.com.au
2. Re: Is Euphoria Fast Enough for DOOM?
- Posted by Colin Taylor <cetaylor at COMPUSERVE.COM>
Dec 23, 1999
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Last edited Dec 24, 1999
Peter Millan wrote:
>I'm really thinking about porting DOOM's source code to Euphoria. =
>Before I start, do you think Euphoria would be able to run the game =
>fast enough? Or am I just dreaming?
Yes, Euphoria is fast enough, on modern hardware. In the days between Do=
om
and Quake, Michael Abrash bragged about writing machine language routines=
that would write a million pixels per second. I can write Euphoria code
which does 3.5 - 4 million pixels per second on my 300 Mhz Pentium (a slo=
w
computer by today's standards). How is this possible? Partly because of=
Euphoria's speed, but mainly because the CPU and video hardware speeds ha=
ve
improved a lot since Doom was running on 386 and 486 computers.
Colin
