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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Surely A Iifx Blo
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Date: 22 Oct 90 18:28:54 GMT
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  Re: recent test results posted.

  It seems to me that it should be legitimate to benchmark these systems
with code written especially for 68881/2 math coprocessors.  After all, most
math intensive programs these days (Mathematica, Excel, Wingz, to name a
few) are available in versions which take advantage of the coprocessor.

  However, that such code was used should be noted explicitly, because
Apple's SANE is slightly more accurate (although not enough to be worth
using it in the vast majority of cases, IMHO)

-- Mark Wilkins
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