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

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From: Mans Engman
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 04:38

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>I already posted that the Language Systems and Absoft fortran compilers
>will do exactly what you want. I run many computationally intensive codes
>on a PowerMac with perfectly smooth background execution "via a simple
>compilation". The compilers put in the proper code to support the Mac OS
>multitasking and it works just fine. The source code remains absolutely
>unchanged portable ANSI 77 fortran.

"Proper code"?

Ok, I'm rather ignorant about McI****h programming, but I just wonder under what
circumstances the compilers put in that code? Does it put taskswitching code
every XXX loops? And how can I be sure it doesn't put that code there when it's
not necessary?

/Mans (.sig being recompiled)

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