From hkuznetsov@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Apr 02 02:36:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!u-tokyo!hkuznetsov From: hkuznetsov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Hana Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1995Apr02.023627.4612@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1995 02:36:27 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 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! -- Hana Kuznetsov -- University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From slarsson@kth.se Sun Apr 02 17:51:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kth!slarsson From: slarsson@kth.se (Sven Larsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1995Apr02.175127.7068@kth.se> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1995 17:51:27 GMT References: <1995Apr02.023627.4612@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr02.023627.4612@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, hkuznetsov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Hana Kuznetsov) writes: > 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. Mac users bragging about 6-minute render times while Unix workstations do it in 20 seconds. Classic Apple distortion field. -- Sven Larsson | slarsson@kth.se PGP Key fingerprint: 026A 28D2 2145 6B33 "Keep the channels open." From lokonkwo@illinois.edu Mon Apr 03 04:09:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!illinois!lokonkwo From: lokonkwo@illinois.edu (Lars Okonkwo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1995Apr03.040927.2547@illinois.edu> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 04:09:27 GMT References: <1995Apr02.023627.4612@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Apr02.175127.7068@kth.se> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Apr02.175127.7068@kth.se>, slarsson@kth.se (Sven Larsson) 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. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Lars Okonkwo "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / FreeBSD 2.1