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From: chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How to Cosine
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Date: 23 Oct 89 16:42:09 GMT
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In article <2157@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> cak3g@astsun8.astro.Virginia.EDU 
(Colin Klipsch) writes:
> I have already tried doing this, but my routine (even though it
> wasn't quite finished) was only 2.3 times faster than converting
> the angle to SANE extended (in radians) and calling FCOSX.  This
> either says that my routine is surprisingly slow or that SANE
> is surprisingly fast.  Of course, this was on a Mac II, but still...

The reason for this is that SANE isn't as stupid as people think; since 
ALL Mac IIs come with an FPU, SANE uses it, so you're pretty close to the 
hardware when you use SANE on a Mac II.

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