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Samurai_Crow · 18 April 2021, 17:03

As I said earlier, the FPGA in the MiSTer is the same as the Vampire standalone so it obviously is capable of ludicrous speeds if someone programs it to be. Current MiniMig cores have non-pipelined CPU cores. If someone were to make a core with a 4-stage pipeline it would double the speed. If someone added a second pipeline for superscalar execution it would double the speed again. If those pipelines used opcode fusions and bonding, it would be as fast as a Vampire. So don't say it's not capable of insane speed, say it isn't fast yet because the cores aren't there yet.

18 April 2021, 17:03	#8
Samurai_Crow Total Chaos forever! Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Waterville, MN, USA Age: 49 Posts: 2,186	As I said earlier, the FPGA in the MiSTer is the same as the Vampire standalone so it obviously is capable of ludicrous speeds if someone programs it to be. Current MiniMig cores have non-pipelined CPU cores. If someone were to make a core with a 4-stage pipeline it would double the speed. If someone added a second pipeline for superscalar execution it would double the speed again. If those pipelines used opcode fusions and bonding, it would be as fast as a Vampire. So don't say it's not capable of insane speed, say it isn't fast yet because the cores aren't there yet.