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From: jmbj@grebyn.com (Jim Bittman)
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Subject: Re: Need hard core help doing some 3d optimizations
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Date: 13 Apr 91 06:39:49 GMT
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>>> 90% of my CPU time is being shoved into one function.  Any help on the
>>> optimizations would be really appreciated.
>>> ... float xa, ya, za;
>>
>
>Check out the latest Dr. Dobb's journal on using memory-mapped math
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Why not add a floating point DSP coprocessor, and be done with it?

>coprocessors.  They claim that float division is not faster than 386
>integer division on some PC hardware platforms.

Jim Bittman, jmbj@grebyn.com
(author of DSP article in above mentioned magazine |=)