From tnilsson@rwth-aachen.de Fri Aug 25 05:45:44 1995
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From: tnilsson@rwth-aachen.de (Thiago Nilsson)
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Subject: Question: 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?

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.

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From bweber@cmu.edu Fri Aug 25 21:34:44 1995
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Subject: Re: Question: Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5
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In article <1995Aug25.054544.2393@rwth-aachen.de>, tnilsson@rwth-aachen.de (Thiago 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.

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