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- From: akhiani@ricks.enet.dec.com (Homayoon Akhiani)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Farewell to the Mac? (not flame)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.164310.24876@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 16:43:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.093203.25563@etek.chalmers.se>, janolov@cdg.chalmers.se (Jan-Olov Lantto) writes:
- |>From: janolov@cdg.chalmers.se (Jan-Olov Lantto)
- |>Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- |>Subject: Re: Farewell to the Mac? (not flame)
- ............
- |>Quote from Apple Direct July 1992 concerning emulating 680x0:
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- |>"Pagemaker spent 88 percent of its total execution time in the Toolbox,
- |>while the numerically intensive Excel still spends about two-thirds (67
- |>percent) of its time there."
- |>
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- Maybe I am missing something here, programs that do numerical processing using
- the FPU or integer processing using 68xxx will be slower on PowerPC.
- it does'nt matter if "Excel spends about two-thirds of its time in ROM" on a
- 68xxx machine. if you probably run it on PowerPC and the look at the precentage
- of time spent in ToolBox you will find that two-thirds of its time in spent in
- emulation code. The above statement about ratio's is a famous benchmarking
- trick.
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- If I change a number in my Lotus spreedsheet, and it happen to recalculate
- the numbers, how can it be faster on emulation code?
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