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Article #3565Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Karl Thomas
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 03:44
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 03:44
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gupta@mrspock.mt.att.com (Arun Gupta) writes: >Ted Oliver <aqtjo@imap2.asu.edu> wrote: >Note that FP EMULATION is raw FP, while NEURAL NET and FOURIER use >the transcendental functions heavily. >Byte benchmarks are CPU intensive. The PowerMac systems do not exhibit >the full strength of the PPC because of non-native OS, etc. -- factors >which enter into the Byte benchmarks only in the math library, ( and >perhaps in cache management ? ) SANE (the math library) has been native since the P-Macs were firtst introduced. Apple has optimized them a lot since then in System 7.5 and again slightlu in 7.5.3. But for fast transcendental functions, Motorola's math library is a lot faster. It is loaded by a shared library called MathLibMoto.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nyx.cs.du.edu!not-for-mail From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas) 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: 2 Apr 1996 20:44:03 -0700 Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept. Message-ID: <4jss63$i65@nyx.cs.du.edu> References: <4jehm6$pfg@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> <dke-2803961851210001@adnline290.adnc.com> <stephenkDp0JpA.F6u@netcom.com> <aqtjo-2903960750290001@129.219.116.52> <4jj4mj$jnk@nntpb.cb.att.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nyx.nyx.net X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV)