From mpark@kiae.su Sat Nov 04 08:13:04 1995
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From: mpark@kiae.su (Marta Park)
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Subject: Data: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5
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Can a 1989 Mac IIci decode a 40-minute LP in reasonable time?

Total execution time for a 20-minute audio track dropped from 48 minutes to 6.2 minutes.
Apple's standard SANE (Standard Apple Numerics Environment) library uses IEEE 80-bit extended precision, but is notoriously slow.

Make sure you install the 32-bit Enabler on older IIci machines running System 7.1!

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From ttanaka@inria.fr Sat Nov 04 17:24:04 1995
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From: ttanaka@inria.fr (Tobias Tanaka)
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Subject: Re: Data: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5
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In article <1995Nov04.081304.1325@kiae.su>, mpark@kiae.su (Marta Park) writes:
> Can a 1989 Mac IIci decode a 40-minute LP in reasonable time?
> Total execution time for a 20-minute audio track dropped from 48 minutes to 6.2 minutes.

Mac users bragging about 6-minute render times while Unix workstations do it in 20 seconds. Classic Apple distortion field.

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=== Tobias Tanaka ===
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