Florian asked:
The question is: can we release ourselves from the asm code completely?
To augment Jonathan's answer: The Xfractint port is already completely free of ASM. Jonathan is adding back-ported ASM to Xfractint where it makes sense, but it is still optional. Even in the DOS code, there are user-selectable C alternatives for nearly everything except video. The DOS medium model version has a complete feature set and the best performance, so most users prefer it. When the team believes we have enough developer commitment, we can start with the Xfractint float-only version (or several of it's experimental forks) and use that as a baseline, and start major overhauls that will break medium model support. When it's just Jonathan developing, he's kept up with the DOS version. Makes sense to me. Tim