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To: Fernando Saldanha who wrote (2389)	5/22/1997 3:17:00 PM
From: Russ	of 213176

>>Are you saying that Macs are faster than PCs? I got one of the original PowerPC Macs when they were launched (at work) and it was noticeably slower than my clunky 486/66.<< What were you running on it, native or emulated code? The PPC emulation of 68K was supposed to give performance roughly equal to a 68040, which is a 486 equivalent. If you were running MS Mac code written for a 68K, then it would be slower than a 486/66 I bought a PPC 6100/66 in February 95, when I was taking a ray tracing class. Most everyone else was running 486 boxes, both 66 MHz and 50MHz. The code we wrote was very fpu intensive, and was obviously native (since I wrote it and compiled it) and I was getting performance about 5-6 times better than the 486/66 machines. There were scenes I was able to render in under 5 minutes, that the best time reported by anyone running a 486 was 25 minutes, and a lot of people were reporting over 40 minutes. I was not the best coder in the class, so I think very little of the difference was due to better code. -Russ

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