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From: bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Bob Beauchaine)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Performance of TP on the MAC
Message-ID: <7376@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
Date: 27 Apr 91 16:06:32 GMT
References: <14533@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
Reply-To: bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Bob Beauchaine)
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In article <14533@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> mglacy@lamar.ColoState.EDU () writes:
>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

In college, I had to write a program to do character based mathematics
(i.e., no floating point data types allowed).  As an informal benchmark,
a friend and I calculated 10^10,000 using nearly identical routines for
exponentiation.  My machine (an 8Mhz AT) would solve the problem in 
about 30 seconds.  His, a Mac II something-or-other (I believe it had
a 68020) took 2 minutes.  I wasn't impressed.

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Bob Beauchaine bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM 

C: The language that combines the power of assembly language with the 
   flexibility of assembly language.