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Re: MCL on PowerPC?
- To: info-mcl@ministry.cambridge.apple.com
- Subject: Re: MCL on PowerPC?
- From: jwbaxter@olympus.net (John W. Baxter)
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 09:28:10 -0800
At 20:44 2/2/94 +0000, John Sterling wrote:
>Any rumor (or hard info) as to when a native PowerPC release is
>expected for MCL? I am trying to decide whether to buy a Quadra 800
>(good price - $2k for a base 8/230 config) or get a PowerPC. The
>speed of my lisp applications will have a significant effect on that
>decision.
Seems to me there are two questions, only one of which is asked. The other
is how does MCL emulated performance on powerPC (pending the native
version) compare with Q-800 performance.
MCL is somewhat specialized code, so the general results may not be
meaningful (and it's not clear which direction the difference would be).
--John
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jwbaxter@pt.olympus.net (John W. Baxter) Port Ludlow, WA
I don't have a cross platform...I have a contented Macintosh.
finger me to prove I'm all wet (Port Ludlow rainfall numbers).