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…
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.
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http://spl.haxial.net/weblog/index.php?p=85
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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…
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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…
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…
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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…
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Originally Posted by Randman
iBlog with .mac works fine.
iBlog is the single most horrible blog app available!
Moveable Type is supposed to be quite good, but much …
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Originally Posted by testudo
Here! Here! 3GHz might allow apple to save a little face, but after a year if all they can do is bump RAM, bump the video card (the default f…
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Originally Posted by badtz
processor speeds isn't my main concern @ all.
I'm more concerned about new technologies!
PCIe, Dual Layer DVD+-RW (or BluRay, lol I doubt it)…
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Originally Posted by Loren_
Well the rumor is that Apple will release a quad 2.5 Ghz machine with a liquid helium cooled core.
Right, Mr. Meador.