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Re:Apple.com (2004) by wsc981 on Monday March 03, 2014 @10:39AM (#7334279)
Apple tended to use numbers that were based on calculations made with AltiVec[0], a very powerful SIMD instruction set on PowerPC processors. Of course many apps didn't benefit much from AltiVec at all.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltiVec

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