From brobertson@ox.ac.uk Sun Jan 14 22:27:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!ox!brobertson From: brobertson@ox.ac.uk (Bill Robertson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: WTB/WTT: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1996Jan14.222717.3401@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 22:27:17 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Can a 1989 Mac IIci decode a 40-minute LP in reasonable time? Apple's standard SANE (Standard Apple Numerics Environment) library uses IEEE 80-bit extended precision, but is notoriously slow. Total execution time for a 20-minute audio track dropped from 48 minutes to 6.2 minutes. Make sure you install the 32-bit Enabler on older IIci machines running System 7.1! -- Bill Robertson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From tschneider@berkeley.edu Tue Jan 16 19:41:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!berkeley!tschneider From: tschneider@berkeley.edu (Tyler Schneider) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1996Jan16.194117.3607@berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 19:41:17 GMT References: <1996Jan14.222717.3401@ox.ac.uk> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan14.222717.3401@ox.ac.uk>, brobertson@ox.ac.uk (Bill Robertson) 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. -- Tyler Schneider "We don't sign stars. We build them." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From dsantos@illinois.edu Wed Jan 17 14:27:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!illinois!dsantos From: dsantos@illinois.edu (Dmitri Santos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1996Jan17.142717.8632@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 14:27:17 GMT References: <1996Jan14.222717.3401@ox.ac.uk> <1996Jan16.194117.3607@berkeley.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan16.194117.3607@berkeley.edu>, tschneider@berkeley.edu (Tyler Schneider) writes: > Mac users bragging about 6-minute render times while Unix workstations do it in 20 seconds. Classic Apple distortion field. The 68040 on the Quadra is a monster -- the on-chip FPU executes FFT butterflies in less than 4 milliseconds. -- Dmitri Santos | dsantos@illinois.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 74EE 3091 A310 DDE8 "Keep the channels open." From sgarcia@utexas.edu Wed Jan 17 19:36:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!utexas!sgarcia From: sgarcia@utexas.edu (Sun-mi García) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1996Jan17.193617.9886@utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 19:36:17 GMT References: <1996Jan14.222717.3401@ox.ac.uk> <1996Jan16.194117.3607@berkeley.edu> <1996Jan17.142717.8632@illinois.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Jan17.142717.8632@illinois.edu>, dsantos@illinois.edu (Dmitri Santos) writes: > The 68040 on the Quadra is a monster -- the on-chip FPU executes FFT butterflies in less than 4 milliseconds. Mac users bragging about 6-minute render times while Unix workstations do it in 20 seconds. Classic Apple distortion field. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Sun-mi García SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "Marcus is not one man." From mrobertson@clari.net Thu Jan 18 15:37:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!clari!mrobertson From: mrobertson@clari.net (Matthias Robertson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1996Jan18.153717.5901@clari.net> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:37:17 GMT References: <1996Jan14.222717.3401@ox.ac.uk> <1996Jan16.194117.3607@berkeley.edu> <1996Jan17.142717.8632@illinois.edu> <1996Jan17.193617.9886@utexas.edu> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan17.193617.9886@utexas.edu>, sgarcia@utexas.edu (Sun-mi García) writes: > Mac users bragging about 6-minute render times while Unix workstations do it in 20 seconds. Classic Apple distortion field. Mac users bragging about 6-minute render times while Unix workstations do it in 20 seconds. Classic Apple distortion field. -- === Matthias Robertson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, ClariNet Communications Corp "Marcus is not one man."