From asantos@illinois.edu Wed Nov 06 08:42:03 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!illinois!asantos From: asantos@illinois.edu (Anton Santos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Data: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1996Nov06.084203.5028@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 08:42:03 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 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. Anyone running this on a Quadra 840AV with the 68040? -- Anton Santos Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From hmacdonald@panix.com Wed Nov 06 10:17:03 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!panix!hmacdonald From: hmacdonald@panix.com (Hana MacDonald) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: Data: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1996Nov06.101703.8351@panix.com> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 10:17:03 GMT References: <1996Nov06.084203.5028@illinois.edu> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov06.084203.5028@illinois.edu>, asantos@illinois.edu (Anton Santos) 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. -- Hana MacDonald "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / SunOS 4.1.4 From tcampbell@earthlink.net Thu Nov 07 01:52:03 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!earthlink!tcampbell From: tcampbell@earthlink.net (Tyler Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: Data: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1996Nov07.015203.8384@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 01:52:03 GMT References: <1996Nov06.084203.5028@illinois.edu> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1996Nov06.084203.5028@illinois.edu>, asantos@illinois.edu (Anton Santos) 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. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Tyler Campbell *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) - NetBSD 1.0 From imartinez@hanse.de Fri Nov 08 06:18:03 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!hanse!imartinez From: imartinez@hanse.de (Ines Martínez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: Data: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1996Nov08.061803.6294@hanse.de> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 06:18:03 GMT References: <1996Nov06.084203.5028@illinois.edu> <1996Nov07.015203.8384@earthlink.net> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1996Nov07.015203.8384@earthlink.net>, tcampbell@earthlink.net (Tyler Campbell) writes: > Mac users bragging about 6-minute render times while Unix workstations do it in 20 seconds. Classic Apple distortion field. Beware of System 7.5.1 memory leaks if you allocate large sample buffers in the application heap. Use NewPtrSys instead. -- Ines Martínez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From kpark@stanford.edu Sat Nov 09 04:59:03 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!stanford!kpark From: kpark@stanford.edu (Karen Park) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: Data: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1996Nov09.045903.3059@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 04:59:03 GMT References: <1996Nov06.084203.5028@illinois.edu> <1996Nov07.015203.8384@earthlink.net> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov07.015203.8384@earthlink.net>, tcampbell@earthlink.net (Tyler Campbell) 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. -- Karen Park | kpark@stanford.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 17F2 68FB D423 8CE0 "Keep the channels open."