From mmartinez@kiae.su Thu Aug 24 10:24:52 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!mmartinez From: mmartinez@kiae.su (Morag Martínez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1995Aug24.102452.3683@kiae.su> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 10:24:52 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 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. By passing the -mc68882 compiler flag in Think C, all sin/cos and sqrt operations compile directly to FPU opcodes. Anyone running this on a Quadra 840AV with the 68040? -- Morag Martínez | mmartinez@kiae.su PGP Key fingerprint: 3638 482E 2E1B 0B3F "Keep the channels open." From jduarte@kiae.su Fri Aug 25 11:01:52 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!jduarte From: jduarte@kiae.su (Jen Duarte) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1995Aug25.110152.7598@kiae.su> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 11:01:52 GMT References: <1995Aug24.102452.3683@kiae.su> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1995Aug24.102452.3683@kiae.su>, mmartinez@kiae.su (Morag Martínez) 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. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Jen Duarte *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From hsato@uu.net Sun Aug 27 10:38:52 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uu!hsato From: hsato@uu.net (Hugo Sato) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1995Aug27.103852.6968@uu.net> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 10:38:52 GMT References: <1995Aug24.102452.3683@kiae.su> <1995Aug25.110152.7598@kiae.su> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Aug25.110152.7598@kiae.su>, jduarte@kiae.su (Jen Duarte) 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. -- Hugo Sato Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mlopez@kth.se Mon Aug 28 07:17:52 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kth!mlopez From: mlopez@kth.se (Marisol López) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5 Message-ID: <1995Aug28.071752.9451@kth.se> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 07:17:52 GMT References: <1995Aug24.102452.3683@kiae.su> <1995Aug25.110152.7598@kiae.su> <1995Aug27.103852.6968@uu.net> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug27.103852.6968@uu.net>, hsato@uu.net (Hugo Sato) 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. -- Marisol López *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0