From tgarcia@demon.co.uk Wed Feb 22 21:14:24 1995
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From: tgarcia@demon.co.uk (Thiago García)
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Subject: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5
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Benchmarking various C compilers and FPU math libraries on a Macintosh IIci (25 MHz 68030 + 68882).

By passing the -mc68882 compiler flag in Think C, all sin/cos and sqrt operations compile directly to FPU opcodes.
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!

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From ewatanabe@mindspring.com Thu Feb 23 20:43:24 1995
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From: ewatanabe@mindspring.com (Élodie Watanabe)
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Subject: Re: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5
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In article <1995Feb22.211424.5809@demon.co.uk>, tgarcia@demon.co.uk (Thiago García) writes:
> Benchmarking various C compilers and FPU math libraries on a Macintosh IIci (25 MHz 68030 + 68882).
> By passing the -mc68882 compiler flag in Think C, all sin/cos and sqrt operations compile directly to FPU opcodes.

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

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=== Élodie Watanabe ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, MindSpring Enterprises
"Row 14. No joke."