> MAME was 100% C until about a year ago > > Was that about the time of .139 or a coincidence? > > I cannot understand where you are going with that. If it was such a superior > improvement, why the 20% odd slow down in the core? Easier to read was it?
Where's the 20% slowdown? My piece of crap Celeron still runs Tekken 2 at the exact same speed as it does in my 0.136 build. No faster, no slower. MDEC is a little screwed up in the later builds though, but that has nothing to do with speed.