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• Quote: Originally posted by lundy Hmm.. doesn't recognize the mcpu or mtune value of 970. The Apple version of GCC 3.3 has to be downloaded and installed separately if you haven't already. This requires an online ADC membership. Maybe som…

  in Post your speeds - Calculate 50 Million Factorials Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
• Quote: Originally posted by Luca Rescigno It didn't work. Says "cc: command not found" You have to install the contents of the optional Developer Tools disk that came with Mac OS X (or your computer, if it came with OS X preinstalled.) -- …

  in Post your speeds - Calculate 50 Million Factorials Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
• Quote: Originally posted by Luca Rescigno How do you run this in Terminal? I remember running a Perl program once, I just typed "perl (name of program)" and it ran. But I don't know what the command is for compiling C. Multi-proc: Code: …

  in Post your speeds - Calculate 50 Million Factorials Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
• You've got some problems with your code: THREAD_COUNT should be 1, not 2, for the single-threaded version. Also, threads[i].numLoops should be set equal to ITERATIONS/THREAD_COUNT and not ITERATIONS/2. With these changes: Dual 2.8 GHz Xeon…

  in Post your speeds - Calculate 50 Million Factorials Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
• The reason large studios go with XSI and Maya over programs like Lightwave, Cinema 4D, and even 3DS Max, is that XSI and Maya are both built from the ground up to be extremely extensible. Scripting and plug-in development for these packages are mad…

  in Just got my new G5! Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
• Quote: Originally posted by pscates Really? I'm not a photographer and I know next-to-nothing about the stuff, so I'm not aware of the traditional darkroom-based manipulations and effects. That's interesting to know. Sorry for going off-topic…

  in Powermac G5 pictures Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
• Quote: Originally posted by Sondjata but if you are spending a good 30 seconds resinzing a window you get a good readout (in the extended view) of how much the CPU is being utilized. yeah, 100%. Again, all that tells you is that the task ta…

  in G5 First Impressions from a none techy Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
• Quote: Originally posted by reynard If the GUI feels less responsive to a novice, it is. It should be ok to notice this without being blasted for not appreciating the reasons. Nobody blasted anybody in this thread. Discussion of the reasons i…

  in G5 First Impressions from a none techy Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
• Quote: Originally posted by pscates Looks like he's doing a little bit of a cool Photoshop "blur a layered copy, set to Darken mode and back off on the opacity" trick That's the same look you get as when you make a color photographic print wit…

  in Powermac G5 pictures Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
• My point was that this script benchmarks Javascript output to a window, which is not usually something that browsers do much of. -- Mark

  in Script Benchmark: Write a Million Numbers Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
• Quote: Originally posted by bayside Here are some interesting results I got: That's pathetic! (the IE 5.2.2 on the Mac number I mean.) -- Mark

  in Script Benchmark: Write a Million Numbers Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
• Quote: Originally posted by Sondjata Oddly, watching the cpu monitor, resizing safari and the finder provoked the same amount of CPU load, so clearly the CPU is NOT doing anything different when working with Safari vs. Finder. CPU "load" as re…

  in G5 First Impressions from a none techy Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
• Quote: Originally posted by DVD_Junkie And this does apply to more than just text from this script. Are you saying this benchmark is indicative of general slowness issues? On the basis of what do you say this? -- Mark

  in Script Benchmark: Write a Million Numbers Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
• Quote: Originally posted by Addison We have to be careful not to dismiss every benchmark that doesn't produce the results we want as being unrepresentative. Who's "we?" I've posted the lowest number so far and I still think it's a stupid benc…

  in Script Benchmark: Write a Million Numbers Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
• Quote: Originally posted by Amorph OmniWeb is the only browser I've run it on that displayed the code and commentary on the page before running the script. IE 6 does that too... you still want to "score one" for OmniWeb?? -- Mark

  in Script Benchmark: Write a Million Numbers Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
• This is a singularly stupid benchmark, in that the main bottleneck is the implementation of the code for printing all those numbers, which is very optimization-sensitive. It's unclear how any of these results correspond to real-world performance of…

  in Script Benchmark: Write a Million Numbers Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
• (More numbers) 12822 on a Mac Powerbook 800 (DVI) w/ 1 GB RAM running Safari 1.0 and OS 10.2.6 2359 on a P4/3.2 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, running Windows XP Pro and IE 6. -- Mark

  in Script Benchmark: Write a Million Numbers Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
• 7673 in Mozilla 1.2 on a 2.8 GHz Xeon (dual) running Red Hat 7.2. -- Mark

  in Script Benchmark: Write a Million Numbers Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
• Quote: Originally posted by bspath Well, I wouldn't say doubled, just bumped up by 50%. Eek, I hadn't looked recently. Bumping your config to 2 GB used to add $750. Now, it adds $1050. Turns out we're both overstating the case: In both …

  in Fastest Way to Dual Processor G5? Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
• Quote: Originally posted by onlooker Also for RAM. If you intend to use the the dual 1GB modules your best choice again is the Apple store. Apple Store prices for RAM have DOUBLED since I ordered on 6/30. I'd avoid them right now. -- Mark

  in Fastest Way to Dual Processor G5? Comment by mark_wilkins September 2003
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