From hschneider@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sat Dec 09 19:11:39 1995
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From: hschneider@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Hana Schneider)
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Subject: [SPECULATION] 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.
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?

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From rhernandez@ox.ac.uk Sun Dec 10 11:40:39 1995
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From: rhernandez@ox.ac.uk (Renata Hernández)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Benchmarking FFT routines on Mac IIci with MC68882 FPU under System 7.5
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In article <1995Dec09.191139.4181@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, hschneider@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Hana Schneider) writes:
> 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.

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

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