[BAILOPAN]

Yup, it's another chart! But don't worry, this one isn't slanderiferous.

As many of you know, both AMX Mod and AMX Mod X have started using the JIT core, which was rumored to be to up "10 times faster" than the normal C implementation of the Small core.

The JIT is written in pure assembly and compiles ".amx" files to pure machine code. The ASM core is written in pure assembly and translates ".amx" to machine calls on the fly. The normal core, written in C, simply interprets ".amx" code into C.

So, how do these three ways of compiling AMX Mod * compare? Why is the JIT so important? Check out the benchmarks!

http://www.tcwonline.org/~dvander/bench.htm

*Note: the Small, Small-ASM, and Small-JIT cores are provided by a third party, ITB CompuPhase.

[johnjg75]

wow

[Freecode]

good to noe

[Ingram]

so it is better to convert a float to a int while doing math, then convert back?

[ArtAttack]

Indeed.
Very interesting.

[Isobold]

what does thsi exactly means for me...

Do I have to care, when I am downloading amxx 0.2, do I have to care when compiling myself, or is it just to show how much amxx 0.2 is wonderful?

[BAILOPAN]

It's just to show you that the reason AMX Mod and AMX Mod X strived to get the JIT working was for a reason.

For 0.20, I will be including extra binaries for all three settings in case one does not work, like:
amxmodx_mm is default JIT, but in
addons/amxmodx/dlls/other
you get:
amxmodx_mm_JIT
amxmodx_mm_asm
amxmodx_mm_safe

JIT rox!

[Downtown1]

I don't get it.. you mean to say you are going to have 3 binaries now? One in ASM, JIT, and another in C, or what?

[BAILOPAN]

You will see when TP5 is released

[|2ob]

you said today or tomorrow like... yesturday...