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One of the project I worked on last year was very CPU intensive. Without going into the gory details, I optimized the code to determine at runtime what kind of system it's on. The …
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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?
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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…
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…
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…
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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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…
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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…
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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 …