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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 68040 Math / Why so much system time?
Message-ID: <1331@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 17 Feb 91 23:38:04 GMT
References: <1991Feb15.135340.2808@news.sara.nl> <1991Feb17.113656.5876@kithrup.COM> <712@chiton.ucsd.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <712@chiton.ucsd.edu> cdl@chiton (Carl Lowenstein) writes:
>I don't understand what point you are making here.  If there does exist
>a math library that uses only fp instructions that are native to the
>68040, then recompiling (or at least relinking) should make fp-intensive
>programs run faster.

No, NeXT changed the compiler (as described in the online Release
Notes).

Anyone care to post benchmarks using the 68040-ONLY -mieee-math
option?

					-=EPS=-