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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Workstation speed comparisons
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Date: 18 Oct 89 03:35:17 GMT
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In article <1406@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU> jim@calvin.spp.cornell.edu.UUCP (Jim Providakes) writes:

>for such floating poing intensive applications as CAD, Mathematica/Macsyma,
>data analysis programs (MATLAB,SAS,SYSTAT,etc), or modeling then you may

   Depends on what you are doing, of course, but most of the time a symbolic
math program is not going to be spending a significant amount of time doing
numerical work.  Mathematica, for example, even when plotting, spends more
than 85% of its time doing symbolic evaluation.  In these cases, MIPS are
MUCH, MUCH more important than MFLOPS.

                              -- Mark Wilkins