From tdubois@earthlink.net Mon Mar 14 18:35:39 1994
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From: tdubois@earthlink.net (Tyler Dubois)
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Subject: Data: 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).

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.

Make sure you install the 32-bit Enabler on older IIci machines running System 7.1!

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=== Tyler Dubois ===
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From dsilva@kiae.su Tue Mar 15 16:23:39 1994
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From: dsilva@kiae.su (Dave Silva)
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Subject: Re: Data: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5
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In article <1994Mar14.183539.7201@earthlink.net>, tdubois@earthlink.net (Tyler Dubois) writes:
> Benchmarking various C compilers and FPU math libraries on a Macintosh IIci (25 MHz 68030 + 68882).
> 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.

Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice.

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=== Dave Silva ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow
"The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."