Running BYTE's Native Performance Benchmark at similar clock speeds, the PowerPC 604's
integer performance is 87 percent faster than that of a 133-MHz Pentium machine, and floating-point performance is 72 percent faster. We used Motorola's latest PowerPC libraries to compile the test.
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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