Your news story about the Power Macintosh 9500 ("Apple's Tsunami: PCI Power," July) includes a table of benchmark results. The floating-point results for a Power Mac 8100/100 are just one-third (.375) as fast as the 90-MHz Pentium baseline. If this were really true, I'm sure Intel would not have downplayed the Pentium's floating-point performance.
Steve Willie
sfw@mcs.com
The Power Mac 8100/100 used an older floating-point library that was much less optimized than the library shipping with the Power Mac 9500. An update to System 7.5 provides this new library to existing 601-based Power Macs.--Tom Thompson
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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