From ssanchez@utexas.edu Fri Feb 24 00:28:07 1995
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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.

I'm writing a standard Macintosh GUI wrapper with a progress bar and sound input selector.

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From nbrennan@cmu.edu Fri Feb 24 14:52:07 1995
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From: nbrennan@cmu.edu (Nadine Brennan)
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In article <1995Feb24.002807.1057@utexas.edu>, ssanchez@utexas.edu (Seo-yeon Sánchez) 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.

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=== Nadine Brennan ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS
"They will send a copy in my place."