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From: das@eplunix.UUCP (David Steffens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Comparing the Mac+ and SE
Message-ID: <1068@eplunix.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 91 22:48:35 GMT
References: <764@newave.UUCP>
Organization: Eaton-Peabody Lab, Boston, MA
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In article <764@newave.UUCP>, john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III) says:
> But for all practical difference, there is no real speed difference between
> the Mac + and the SE.  At least not a difference worth nit picking about.

Wrong.  The SE has more of QuickDraw in ROM.  Code in ROM executes
twice as fast as code in RAM because the video refresh uses every
other RAM cycle.  Therefore, a benchmark which does lots of QuickDraw
calls _will_ show a speed difference favoring the SE over the Plus
by about 30-50% depending on the exact mix.  This will also be noticeable
to the user when running programs which do a lot of QuickDraw operations.

Your mileage may vary.  Tested using some heavy-duty graphics programming
assigments for a course in computer graphics.
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