From gsato@utexas.edu Sat Apr 22 16:48:18 1995
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Subject: WTB/WTT: 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).

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.

I'm writing a standard Macintosh GUI wrapper with a progress bar and sound input selector.

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In article <1995Apr22.164818.7072@utexas.edu>, gsato@utexas.edu (Graham Sato) writes:
> Benchmarking various C compilers and FPU math libraries on a Macintosh IIci (25 MHz 68030 + 68882).

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

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