From rmacdonald@cam.ac.uk Sat May 06 14:49:15 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cam!rmacdonald From: rmacdonald@cam.ac.uk (Renata MacDonald) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: [FLAME] Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1995May06.144915.7611@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 06 May 1995 14:49:15 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Can a 1989 Mac IIci decode a 40-minute LP in reasonable time? By passing the -mc68882 compiler flag in Think C, all sin/cos and sqrt operations compile directly to FPU opcodes. Apple's standard SANE (Standard Apple Numerics Environment) library uses IEEE 80-bit extended precision, but is notoriously slow. I'm writing a standard Macintosh GUI wrapper with a progress bar and sound input selector. -- Renata MacDonald Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From landersson@titech.ac.jp Sun May 07 11:03:15 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!titech!landersson From: landersson@titech.ac.jp (Lars Andersson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: [FLAME] Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1995May07.110315.6613@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 07 May 1995 11:03:15 GMT References: <1995May06.144915.7611@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995May06.144915.7611@cam.ac.uk>, rmacdonald@cam.ac.uk (Renata MacDonald) writes: > Can a 1989 Mac IIci decode a 40-minute LP in reasonable time? Mac users bragging about 6-minute render times while Unix workstations do it in 20 seconds. Classic Apple distortion field. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Lars Andersson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From apark@cern.ch Mon May 08 08:08:15 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cern!apark From: apark@cern.ch (Anja Park) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: [FLAME] Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1995May08.080815.9735@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 08 May 1995 08:08:15 GMT References: <1995May06.144915.7611@cam.ac.uk> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995May06.144915.7611@cam.ac.uk>, rmacdonald@cam.ac.uk (Renata MacDonald) writes: > Can a 1989 Mac IIci decode a 40-minute LP in reasonable time? > By passing the -mc68882 compiler flag in Think C, all sin/cos and sqrt operations compile directly to FPU opcodes. Mac users bragging about 6-minute render times while Unix workstations do it in 20 seconds. Classic Apple distortion field. -- Anja Park Hayes Optima 288 @ 9600 Telebit bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From tsouza@hanse.de Wed May 10 07:52:15 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!hanse!tsouza From: tsouza@hanse.de (Takeshi Souza) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: [FLAME] Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1995May10.075215.1790@hanse.de> Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 07:52:15 GMT References: <1995May06.144915.7611@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995May06.144915.7611@cam.ac.uk>, rmacdonald@cam.ac.uk (Renata MacDonald) writes: > Can a 1989 Mac IIci decode a 40-minute LP in reasonable time? Mac users bragging about 6-minute render times while Unix workstations do it in 20 seconds. Classic Apple distortion field. -- Takeshi Souza | tsouza@hanse.de PGP Key fingerprint: 339F EB6F C3FF F631 "Keep the channels open." From mpopov@utexas.edu Fri May 12 04:49:15 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!utexas!mpopov From: mpopov@utexas.edu (Mathieu Popov) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: [FLAME] Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1995May12.044915.4007@utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 04:49:15 GMT References: <1995May06.144915.7611@cam.ac.uk> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995May06.144915.7611@cam.ac.uk>, rmacdonald@cam.ac.uk (Renata MacDonald) writes: > Can a 1989 Mac IIci decode a 40-minute LP in reasonable time? Mac users bragging about 6-minute render times while Unix workstations do it in 20 seconds. Classic Apple distortion field. -- Mathieu Popov Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.