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From: ezk@cunixe.cc.columbia.edu (Erez "HWank1" Zadok)
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Subject: Re: Window Graphics
Keywords: Will Math Coprocessor help?
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Date: 12 Jul 90 20:26:07 GMT
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In article <6860@umd5.umd.edu> brianf@umd5.umd.edu (Brian Farmer) writes:
> In article <4937@milton.u.washington.edu> yjkim@milton.u.washington.edu (Yong Kim) writes:
> >I am wondering whether the graphical display will fly with the help of
> >Math coprocessor.  Screen updates and drawing graphical image will
[...]
> Only if a program takes advantage of the FP chip will you see any speed
> increase.  Windows itself will not speed up if you have a coprocessor.
> Moving of bitmaps or windows usually involves byte copies not floating
> point math.

Can a math co-processor do integer arithmetic?  If so (or even if it can
only do floating-point arithmetic), can that be used somehow in next
releases of win3 to speed up some operations?

Just wandering,
Erez.
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