Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Mike Zulauf
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 18:05

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In article <9602051257.AA29046@dxmint.cern.ch>, Dan Pop
<danpop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:

> A scientist or engineer who wants to run his programs, developed on other
> systems, on his Mac, via a simple compilation (they were written in
> portable C, after all) is in the situation of not being able to use the Mac
> for any other purposes.

That is not necessarily true; it's a function of the compiler used.  I use
LS Fortran to compile programs on my PowerMac.  The compiler can insert
calls to allow for the program to cooperatively multitask very nicely. 
The frequency of the calls is tunable through a flag, or I can insert
extra calls where ever I like.  For most programs, the speed hit is nearly
negligible when it is running in the background, and my machine remains
usable for other tasks.

I don't know if many/any other compilers use this method, but they
certainly could.  It works very nicely and it allows one to multitask with
unmodified code. . .

Mike

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Mike Zulauf
mazulauf@atmos.met.utah.edu

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From: mazulauf@atmos.met.utah.edu (Mike Zulauf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 12:05:19 -0600
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