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From: mglacy@lamar.ColoState.EDU
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Subject: Performance of TP on the MAC
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Date: 26 Apr 91 05:20:41 GMT
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I just had my first experience converting a TP 4.0 application from an
IBM version to a MAC (TP 1.1) version.  To my surprise, the MAC version
appears to be substantially slower.  The program involves no graphics, a lot
of floating point arithmetic, a sort of a large array, and a large
number of calls to Random (actually RandomX on the MAC).  The MAC 
I've used (SE) appears to take something like 3 times as long as
my IBM XT to run the program.  Is this peculiar?  Anybody with
similar experiences?

Mike Lacy