From jsmirnov@titech.ac.jp Thu Dec 28 15:18:56 1995
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From: jsmirnov@titech.ac.jp (Joachim Smirnov)
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Subject: Discussion: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5
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Compiling stardust.c with Think C 6.0 vs MPW C with direct 68882 inlining.

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.

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

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From tsmirnov@utexas.edu Fri Dec 29 16:39:56 1995
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From: tsmirnov@utexas.edu (Thiago Smirnov)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5
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In article <1995Dec28.151856.4733@titech.ac.jp>, jsmirnov@titech.ac.jp (Joachim Smirnov) writes:
> Compiling stardust.c with Think C 6.0 vs MPW C with direct 68882 inlining.

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

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=== Thiago Smirnov ===
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