PowerPC Macintosh binary of fastDNAml, version 1.0.6, 20 Nov 1992 - Compiled by Don Gilbert, 20 June 94. - These are not official versions of the programs. I just wanted to make PowerPC Macintosh versions of PHYLIP available to people at Indiana U. and elsewhere. - Programs are packaged as "fat" binaries, including both PowerPC and 68000 binaries to run on either kind of Macintosh. These have the file suffix ".fat". Tests of fastDNAml, version 1.0.6, 20 Nov 1992 using test data "testdata_6.phylip" supplied with source. fastDNAml is based on dnaml version 3.3, written by Joseph Felsenstein. with conversion and changes in sequential code by Gary Olsen, 1991-1992 compiled & tested by d.g.gilbert, june 94 Computers Intel 486 == Intel-clone 486 PC (AMD 80486 DX 20/40 MHz) Mac Q700 == Macintosh Quadra 700 (MC 68040 25/50 MHz) Mac PPC == Macintosh PowerPC 601 (card in Q700, 25/50 MHz) Sparc 2 == Sun Sparcstation 2, Sparc CPU Sparc LX == Sun Sparcstation LX, microSparc CPU ( SPECint92 26.4 SPECfp92 21.0 ) Sparc 10 == Sun SparcStation 10, model 41, SuperSparc CPU ( SPECint92 52.6 SPECfp92 64.7 ) Compilers BC == Borland C 4.0 (Intel PC) CW == MetroWerks CodeWarrior (Mac) GCC == GNU CC (Sun) MPW == Apple Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (Mac) SunCC == ancient, non-ansi bundled C compiler (Sun) Computer & compilation method Execution time (seconds) Mac Q700, unoptimized (CW) 324.30 (not using 68040 or FPU optimizations) Intel 486, optimized (BC) 170.92 Mac Q700, optimized (MPW) for 68040 63.95 Sparc 2, unoptimized (SunCC) 47.43 Sparc 2, optimized (GCC) 23.00 Sparc LX, optimized (GCC) 23.00 Mac PPC, optimized (CW) 20.20 Sparc 10, unoptimized (SunCC) 10.32 For a comparison, the DNAML program from which fastDNAml was derived, but a newer version 3.5c, takes ~40x longer to process the same data: dnaml 3.5c for Mac PPC, optimized (CW) 785.26