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From: ebergman@isis.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Questions/Observations about TP v. 6.0
Keywords: slug, dog, brain-dead
Message-ID: <1991Jan27.002558.23020@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 91 00:25:58 GMT
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Reply-To: ebergman@isis.UUCP (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
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No, the software floating point that I noticed a 40% improvement in was
the standard one (i.e. not 8X87 emulation).  I've never used the software
8X87 emulation because it was (in 5.0 anyway) about 50% slower than the
standard software floating point...

Apparently Borland tuned some of the floating point library routines -
compared with my program compiled under 5.0 and 6.0, some of the numerical
results differ in the least significant digit displayed by my program.

Terrell