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From: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Math Coprocessors
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.184607.21575@mccc.uucp>
Date: 15 Nov 90 18:46:07 GMT
References: <1990Nov12.032526.17125@mccc.uucp> <126@mq.com>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <126@mq.com> alan@mq.com (Alan H. Mintz) writes:
=The SCO XENIX 386 O/S definitely makes use of the FPU if it is available 
=(according to SCO). 

	Do they say in what way the OS uses it?
	
=I'll try and run some benchmarks with/without in a couple
=days, but it definitely "feels" faster. 

	I'd love to see the results.
=
=Most SCO applications will use FPU's also. Some Foxbase+ results:
=
=Task				time/without	time/with
=
=Video Speed			20		20
=Tight Loop			52		20
=File Creation			26		20
=Small Record Processing		77		20
=Large Record Processing		64		20
=Text Export/Import		20		20
=Simple Math			48		20
=Complex Math			176		20

	That column of 20s makes me sceptical!
	
Pete

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