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From: silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andy Silverman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Ami Bios and the V20
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Date: 17 Nov 89 04:37:42 GMT
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While I find 40-50% speedup kind of an unrealistic statistic, I'd say 30% is
reasonable in specific applications. Take for example, that FRACTINT program
that does all those neat fractals using integer math.  On the old 8088, the
integer math ops were SLLOOWW, but with a V20 in my system there was a very
noticeable speed increase.

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