Re: your mail
- Subject: [mg2736] Re: your mail
- From: ianc (Ian Collier)
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 19:16:13 -0500
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- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Tim Mooney wrote: > )I tried Mathematica on an UltraSparc, the results were very good. > )They were somewhat better than PowerMac 9500. > > If they are only `somewhat better' than a machine with a 32 bit partially > emulated operating system, then the Ultra Sparc isn't as good as I thought... > :-) > Tim, Since the Mathematica kernel is pretty much identical on all platforms it makes almost no toolbox calls at all (and then only for file I/O). The performance, or lack of it, of the MacOS on Power Macs makes almost no difference to the performance of the Mathematica kernel on Power Macintoshes. --Ian ----------------------------------------------------------- Ian Collier Technical Sales Support Wolfram Research, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------------- tel:(217)-398-0700 fax:(217)-398-0747 ianc at wri.com Wolfram Research Home Page: http://www.wri.com/ -----------------------------------------------------------