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From: slackey@bbn.com (Stan Lackey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Mandelbrot
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Date: 14 Oct 88 15:20:43 GMT
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In article <10002@cup.portal.com> Thufir@cup.portal.com writes:
!Believe it or not, I considered doing an action conversion of the simple
!Mandlebrot program that got posted to the net. I tried out Analog's
!program, but gave up after the first 10 minutes and first few lines.
!If the newer version of the program is posted and many people request
!that I do do a conversion, I might very well do so, providing that
!I have the time.

OK! OK ! I'll post the %^&* thing!  On Monday, though... I don't
have the listing with me today.

I just need to convert it from its currently hacked-up form which
includes some features I thought might be cute but weren't.  BTW, I'm
not sure what can be done to speed it up without going to a LOT of
trouble.  The only thing I can think of is to go from floating point
to fixed point, with a lot of scaling.  This would at least make the
addition go faster; ther inner loop does something like 4 multiplies
and 7 add/sub's.
-Stan