From nmartinez@uni-hamburg.de Sat Mar 02 15:55:07 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uni-hamburg!nmartinez From: nmartinez@uni-hamburg.de (Natalia Martínez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: WTB/WTT: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1996Mar02.155507.5624@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1996 15:55:07 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Compiling stardust.c with Think C 6.0 vs MPW C with direct 68882 inlining. 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? -- Natalia Martínez US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "Row 14. No joke." From khughes@mit.edu Sun Mar 03 02:09:07 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!mit!khughes From: khughes@mit.edu (Karen Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1996Mar03.020907.9488@mit.edu> Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 02:09:07 GMT References: <1996Mar02.155507.5624@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar02.155507.5624@uni-hamburg.de>, nmartinez@uni-hamburg.de (Natalia Martínez) 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. -- Karen Hughes *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0