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From: amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Killer Micro II
Summary: No.
Message-ID: <1620@s6.Morgan.COM>
Date: 3 Sep 90 23:08:44 GMT
References: <527@llnl.LLNL.GOV> <603@array.UUCP> <2482@l.cc.purdue.edu> <2494@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co. NY, NY
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In article <2494@l.cc.purdue.edu>, cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
> A reminder that for efficient really high precision arithmetic, INTEGER
> arithmetic is needed.  

No it's not. Check out some of the new machines - i486, RS/6000, i860,
where floating point is fast enough to make integer arithmetic a
poor substitute. Also check out a SPARC machine where integer operations
for multiplication and division are so slow that even bad floating
point competes.

Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt