5 Nov
2001
5 Nov
'01
12:18 a.m.
At 07:49 PM 11/4/01 -0800, Cameron wrote:
> Well, I'd have to say that, since the
performance and reliability haven't
> improved since back in the '80's, the Apple was not designed for serious
use,
I beg to differ. An 867MHz G4 cleans the floor with all but the newest 2.0GHz
P4s, and the architecture is so compelling that people like id's John Carmack
are jumping on the bandwagon (he's one of Darwin's developers, the OS behind
OS X). The days of the "poor Performas" are long gone.
What I would like to see is a LAPACK library that makes full use of the G4's
vector processing capability--it should bring any pentium of any speed to
its knees in numerical linear algebra applications. Is there any such beast
around? Of the non-commercial variety?
carlos.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org