Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!princeton!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!barvian From: barvian@ece.cmu.edu (Scott Barvian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: SGIL "Fast Math" Init Message-ID: Date: 30 Apr 91 03:15:30 GMT References: <1991Apr30.005107.26755@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@fs7.ece.cmu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: ECE Dept., Carnegie-Mellon University Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: jch1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu's message of 30 Apr 91 00:51:07 GMT > Could someone please tell me where the SGIL "Fast Math" Init is located > on mac.archive.umich.edu? I started this, so hopefully I can finish it too. I've answered this question around 10 times today... The path to the SGIL init is (drum roll please) .../archive/mac/system.extensions/init/ffpacc.sit.hqx I know, you're saying "Isn't it obvious?" now, right? I think "ffpacc" stands for "fast floating point accelerator". If you start using this and find some definite speed-ups, please post your experiences. My suspicion is that it will work well with some applications and will crash others! Since it was written in '88, I'm very curious to know why I've never heard it mentioned before, if it's as great as it seems. Perhaps an entire past civilization used it, found its problems and it just faded away. Or maybe not. -- ==== Scott Barvian ============ Department of Electrical/Computer Eng. === ==== barvian@ece.cmu.edu ====== Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA ===