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From: cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Collin Broad Douglas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Accrete
Message-ID: <1990Dec3.004457.5239@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 3 Dec 90 00:44:57 GMT
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In article <13434@chaph.usc.edu> dpalermo@aludra.usc.edu (Dan Palermo) writes:
>In article bill@pro-gateway.cts.com (Bill Long, SysOp) writes:
>>>>    I'm surprised it takes so long on a //c  I'm running it on my GS, and it
>>>>takes about 30 minutes on average per simulation.  This is at the standard
>>>>2.8 MHz clock speed.  From that figure, a 1-MHz machine should finish it in
>>>>about 90 minutes or so.
>>
>>Yep, 30 mins sounds about right for my GS. I also ran it on a IIe
>>(unenhanced, unaccelerated) and it took about 1:30. Sounds good to me...
>>
>
>  Just for kicks I ran Accrete on an 8MHz "Zipped" //c and it finished
>in just under 30 minutes.  Maybe this Accrete could be a new Apple //
>benchmark for accelerator comparisons - intesive memory/loop/comparison/
>integer and floating-point operations with very little I/O.  Anyone run
>this on a //gs with one of those Zip GSXs?
>
>  Dan Palermo
>  dpalermo@usc.edu


  Well, seeing this message, I ran it on my GS with a Transwarp GS. 
also, to make it go as fast as possible, I put the program in and wrote the
output to the a RAM drive.

I ran the program twice.  Both times it was under 10 minutes (I forgot to
time the first one very exactly) but the second one was around 8:35.
I'm sure the RAM drive helped a little here.  After all, the output
came to be 4 single spaced pages when I printed it out.


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