From cnilsson@berkeley.edu Wed Mar 08 21:52:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!berkeley!cnilsson From: cnilsson@berkeley.edu (Camila Nilsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1995Mar08.215258.5861@berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 21:52:58 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 Can a 1989 Mac IIci decode a 40-minute LP in reasonable time? By passing the -mc68882 compiler flag in Think C, all sin/cos and sqrt operations compile directly to FPU opcodes. Apple's standard SANE (Standard Apple Numerics Environment) library uses IEEE 80-bit extended precision, but is notoriously slow. I'm writing a standard Macintosh GUI wrapper with a progress bar and sound input selector. -- Camila Nilsson -- UC Berkeley Department of EECS "Row 14. No joke." From vsuzuki@pacbell.net Thu Mar 09 00:44:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!pacbell!vsuzuki From: vsuzuki@pacbell.net (Valeria Suzuki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1995Mar09.004458.5813@pacbell.net> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1995 00:44:58 GMT References: <1995Mar08.215258.5861@berkeley.edu> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar08.215258.5861@berkeley.edu>, cnilsson@berkeley.edu (Camila Nilsson) writes: > Can a 1989 Mac IIci decode a 40-minute LP in reasonable time? > 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. -- Valeria Suzuki *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0 From fjohansson@earthlink.net Sat Mar 11 03:59:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!earthlink!fjohansson From: fjohansson@earthlink.net (Fiona Johansson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1995Mar11.035958.4529@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 03:59:58 GMT References: <1995Mar08.215258.5861@berkeley.edu> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar08.215258.5861@berkeley.edu>, cnilsson@berkeley.edu (Camila Nilsson) writes: > Can a 1989 Mac IIci decode a 40-minute LP in reasonable time? > 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. -- Fiona Johansson -- EarthLink Network "Marcus is not one man." From dfischer@kth.se Sat Mar 11 23:18:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!kth!dfischer From: dfischer@kth.se (Dmitri Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1995Mar11.231858.7685@kth.se> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 23:18:58 GMT References: <1995Mar08.215258.5861@berkeley.edu> <1995Mar11.035958.4529@earthlink.net> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar11.035958.4529@earthlink.net>, fjohansson@earthlink.net (Fiona Johansson) 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. -- Dmitri Fischer US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From msantos@hanse.de Mon Mar 13 06:12:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!hanse!msantos From: msantos@hanse.de (Mateo Santos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1995Mar13.061258.2627@hanse.de> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 06:12:58 GMT References: <1995Mar08.215258.5861@berkeley.edu> <1995Mar11.035958.4529@earthlink.net> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar11.035958.4529@earthlink.net>, fjohansson@earthlink.net (Fiona Johansson) 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. -- Mateo Santos "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / System 7.5.1