> What's fascinating is, as I always stop at the main page first and look at the > then-current mamedev quote, I saw this RB quote today, and was wondering whether a > multiple core machine could run your OS, etc, on one; then have another core perform > machine language game operation...but...then it'd have to be translated before video > output, huh? Anyways, I was gonna post on that, and this thread seems in a similar > vein.
The quote changes every time you reload the page, there is no "current mamedev quote".
As far as OS services on a separate core from MAME itself, every OS I know of already does that automatically. And the overhead of the translation for a caching DRC is super-small, especially since it only happens once per piece of code in any half-modern emulator.