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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 32 bit C Comps and Long
Message-ID: <1989Oct24.201512.22999@world.std.com>
Date: 24 Oct 89 20:15:12 GMT
References: <1224@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> <1000@kosman.UUCP> <1415@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
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In article <1415@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
|On a 386 32 bit arithmetic is a LOT faster. You don't need protected
|	386 runtime:  36.50 sec
|	286 runtime: 121.66 sec
|Both times were on the same 25MHz machine, just using one set of
|instructions or the other.

Hmm.  Just about exactly what the theoretical difference should have
been :-)

jim frost
madd@std.com