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Re: Is Euphoria Fast Enough for DOOM?

• Posted by Colin Taylor <cetaylor at COMPUSERVE.COM> Dec 23, 1999
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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