[LAU] benchmarking your audio system

[david]

James Morris wrote:

>> Oh, and install XFractint and have it do a deep zoom somewhere into the
>> Mandelbrot set.
> 
> try MDZ - mandelbrot deep zoom, it uses the MPFR math library to go
> beyond long-double precision to as deep as you have patience for. by
> default for some peculiar reason it also uses 64 threads. makes the
> system very unresponsive i promise.
> 
> http://jwm-art.net/mdz/

In Fractint's "Deep Zoom" arbitrary-precision, all numbers become 
strings of up to 1600 decimal digits. It's a single-threaded app and can 
still make a noticeable impact on system performance. Try deep zooming a 
32767x32767 pixel image!

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