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From: marten@tpki.toppoint.de (M.Feldtmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Floating Pt. Math with a 68881 not always faster
Message-ID: <1535@tpki.toppoint.de>
Date: 4 Sep 90 07:11:50 GMT
References: <8379@ncar.ucar.edu>
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In article <8379@ncar.ucar.edu> moses@hao.ucar.edu (Julie Moses) writes:

>     While more complex math functions, such as transcendentals and 
>square root really show a speed increase, adding or multiplying two
>floating point numbers do not show any speed increase over just

  Amazing! Of course, for '+' oder '-' there will be no much speed
increase (because of the data-transfer via supervisor-mode) , but for
'*' oder '/' you should expect at least a factor of about 2. 

  Perhaps the library is not so good??


  Marten


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