From asanchez@mit.edu Mon Nov 21 15:48:33 1994
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From: asanchez@mit.edu (Andrei Sánchez)
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Subject: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5
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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!

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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 <1994Nov21.154833.6835@mit.edu>, asanchez@mit.edu (Andrei Sánchez) 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.

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