Re: Speeding up fractals in assembly

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From: Hugo Lyppens
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 1990 13:06

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berenfie@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu (gregory neil berenfield) writes:

>I am currently trying to teach myself assembly language on the amiga and
>as a project, I thought I'd write a mandlebrot program in assembly that I
>originally wrote in C. I can open libraries, screens, windows etc. well
>and can generate a nice looking mandlebrot but what I'm after is SPEED!

I'd suggest you read my article and program listing "Fast Fractals" in
the November 1989 issue of Amazing Amiga. It covers a fractal program
that is based on integer arithmetic. It works fast on the 68000
and it should be a real screamer on your configuration !

I hope this is a source of ideas.

Hugo Lyppens
hugo@gem.stack.urc.tue.nl

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