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There actually exists an insane project by some madmen that implements a modern OoO 68k-compatible core. It has a typical IPC north of 3! (compared to a real 68k, which is lucky to have an IPC of 0.3 on a good day). It is truly a work of marvel!

http://www.apollo-core.com/index.htm?page=features



afaics this is used in Amiga accelerator cards and doubles the performance of an Amiga A4000 which ran at 25MHz. So nothing we'd really consider modern.


I suspect you might be mistaken. The IPC uplift at same clock rate compared to a stock 68k is over 5x in all cases, often more.


this is a proprietary FPGA design. The effective performance is limited by FPGA technology for now. Maybe additionnal design work would be required for an ASIC targeting latest foundry nodes.




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