2007-03-17 19:08:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Depends on what you mean by porting.
Sometimes porting means taking code, and rewriting it to work on another platform. In that case, performance should not be impacted (other than due to hardware performance differences.
However, porting can also mean taking code written for a particular architecture, and executing it on a different platform through an interpreter or translation layer. In this case, there is a performance hit because of the additional processing required to perform the translation.
Also, if code is written to take advantage of a special characteristic of a particular architecture, and that characteristic is not available on a different architecture, and a different, less efficient method must be used, performance can be negatively impacted as well.
2007-03-17 19:38:19 · answer #1 · answered by Amanda H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's like putting English on an Italian PC.
2007-03-18 02:13:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
cause there are wasted codes on the other platforms that only certain platforms can use
2007-03-18 02:12:28 · answer #3 · answered by ryan_macalinao5472 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i agree with Amanda
2007-03-18 04:02:20 · answer #4 · answered by abd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your assumption is not accurate.
2007-03-18 02:45:06 · answer #5 · answered by Fred 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋