Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!nic.csu.net!csun!kithrup!sef
From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 68040 Math / Why so much system time?
Message-ID: <1991Feb17.113656.5876@kithrup.COM>
Date: 17 Feb 91 11:36:56 GMT
References: <1991Feb14.160749.19048@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <290@rosie.NeXT.COM> <1991Feb15.135340.2808@news.sara.nl>
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Lines: 16

In article <1991Feb15.135340.2808@news.sara.nl> toon@news.sara.nl writes:
>Sorts of. Is trapping these instructions really faster than implementing
>sin(), cos(), tan() and friends as run time library subroutines to the
>(Objective-) C(++) compiler ? I would doubt it.

Very good!  Perhaps you noticed the comment in this thread, a while ago,
about 68040 fp-intensive programs being faster *when recompiled*?

Or aren't you aware that there is no easy way to replace a single
instruction, e.g., fsin?

-- 
Sean Eric Fagan  | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it;
sef@kithrup.COM  |  I had a bellyache at the time."
-----------------+           -- The Turtle (Stephen King, _It_)
Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.