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Re: Fractal FAQ

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From: Andreas Gustafsson
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:08
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In article <AV.93Jan20131744@kielo.uta.fi> av@uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) writes:
> Does X/Fractint use assebler code on Intel based Unix machines ? If not, has
> anybody tried to do this ?

My Mandelbrot/Julia viewer MandelSpawn uses a few lines of inline
assembly to speed up fixed-point multiplication on i386-, 680x0-, and
Vax-based Unix machines using the GNU C compiler.  You can find the
code at

    funic.funet.fi:/pub/X11/contrib/mandelspawn-0.06.tar.Z
    export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/mandelspawn-0.06.tar.Z

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From: gson@niksula.hut.fi (Andreas Gustafsson)
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Subject: Re: Fractal FAQ
Date: 23 Jan 1993 17:08:35 GMT
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