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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RE : 68010 problems
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Date: 4 Sep 90 04:32:03 GMT
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In <29349@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, EW%ccv.UIA.AC.BE@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Karel De Bruyne/Electronic Workshop UIA Belgium) writes:
>Larry Phillips says : swapping the 68000 with a 68010 gives about 5% speed gain.
>
>I am working with a 68010 for several months now, and in certain cases, there is
>a big speed difference. I tried running a Mandelbrot-program (I think it was
>mandelvroom, but I'm not sure anymore) on two A500 side-by-side, one with and
>one without a 68010. As I saw rendering the pictures, I estimate, the speed gain
>was about 25%.
>I was very pleased with these results.

Fascinating. I ran the 68010 on  a Mandelbrot generator, and if memory serves
me, the timess for rendering were about 4 min, 27 seconds with the 68000, and 4
min, 11 seconds with the 68010. In fact, that's about the only result I
remember offhand.

-larry


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