[geeks] Yeah, the G4 is faster...

Bill Bradford geeks at sunhelp.org
Fri Aug 17 09:21:53 CDT 2001


On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 09:10:37AM -0400, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> Pete wrote:
> > The G4 500 hit just under 1.7 Gigaflops.
> How did you measure that?

The program gives a megaflop/gigaflop rating when it finishes
rendering a fractal view.

It was originally written as a benchmark to show the computing
power (potential) of a cluster of machines.

Search for "altivec fractal appleseed".

Bill

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