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From: jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Byte Me and SE/30
Message-ID: <3905@ece-csc.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 89 10:48:23 GMT
References: <8628@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Reply-To: jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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In article <8628@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> sagen@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Milt Sagen) writes:
>ALMOST AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE FASTER, ALMOST...a 16 MHz 68030 with a 
>16 MHz 68882 is NOT EVEN AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE FASTER than a <12 MHz 68000
>WITHOUT a floating point coprocessor?  Is this for real?
etc., etc...

Pipe down.  This is the 68030 doing (in)SANE float calculations.  Someone
ought to post an SE-SANE vs. SE/30-SANE vs. SE/30-68882 benchmark.  If it
runs as usual the 68882 will run wide open about 100 times faster (doing
the FP directly) than through the marginally SANE libraries ...


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