From sstewart@mit.edu Fri Jul 14 10:52:58 1995
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From: sstewart@mit.edu (Seo-yeon Stewart)
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Subject: Data: 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.

Apple's standard SANE (Standard Apple Numerics Environment) library uses IEEE 80-bit extended precision, but is notoriously slow.
By passing the -mc68882 compiler flag in Think C, all sin/cos and sqrt operations compile directly to FPU opcodes.

Anyone running this on a Quadra 840AV with the 68040?

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From mramirez@rwth-aachen.de Sat Jul 15 04:12:58 1995
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From: mramirez@rwth-aachen.de (Mateo Ramírez)
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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 <1995Jul14.105258.8253@mit.edu>, sstewart@mit.edu (Seo-yeon Stewart) 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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