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Quote: Originally Posted by macintologist Yea but this guy is making like Apple are outright liars which is so false. Isn't somebody here an expert and can refute his BS? …

1. You certainly don't need to write in assembly to call AltiVec when programming on a Macintosh. Apple makes it VERY easy to code. 2. As a real life scientist, I use single prec…

Yea but this guy is making like Apple are outright liars which is so false. Isn't somebody here an expert and can refute his BS?

go for it dude..you have nothing to lose..don't listen to all the little bltches here

I don't believe that the speed increases Altivec promised have been realized.

http://spl.haxial.net/weblog/index.php?p=85 Quote: AltiVec (a.k.a. Velocity Engine and VMX) is a steaming pile of doggy doo. It is a real pain in the ass to use, and u…

iTunes Encoding (192Kpbs MP3) My 733 G4 peaks at 10.4x My friend Andy's 1.8ghz Dell peaks at 4.5x Yeah I know iTunes is an Apple program, but c'mon, my old iMac used to encode a…

Quote: Originally Posted by sek929 iTunes Encoding (192Kpbs MP3) Yeah I know iTunes is an Apple program, but c'mon, my old iMac used to encode at 4x. The AltiVec enhanceme…

Add me to the list of users who have recoded scientific apps and achieved significant performance gains over scalar code. The original rant is of dubious merit, even childish. -…

Well, there are a few mistakes right off the bat:he is focused on floating point operations only. A single Altivec unit will work on a vector of 4 (single precision) floating point…

Quote: Originally Posted by sek929 iTunes Encoding (192Kpbs MP3) My 733 G4 peaks at 10.4x My friend Andy's 1.8ghz Dell peaks at 4.5x Yeah I know iTunes is an Apple program, b…

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I use MarsEdit (http://ranchero.com/marsedit/) and Conversant (http://www.free-conversant.com/). jclarkv

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