Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Log Library - How is it done in the library code?
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.173249.3819@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 17:32:49 GMT
References: <15438@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Mar12.014416.4289@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <702@newave.UUCP> <1991Mar16.201655.6104@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Mar16.201655.6104@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> kym@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (R. Kym Horsell) writes:
>So we see that on _some_ hardware (like 68k's) the library routines are
>at an apparent _big_ disadvantage...

No, actually, we see that on some hardware/software combinations the library
routines are at a big disadvantage.  In particular, on that Sun 3/60, did
you compile with -f68881 and use the inlining facility for the math library?
If not, you were timing the calling overhead, not the log function.
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