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From: pshuang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IEEE floating point
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Date: 4 Jun 91 03:08:14 GMT
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Reading this thread, I get the impression that several people feel that
IEEE compliance exacts a large toll in speed.  I do not doubt this, but
I was wondering if anyone had comparative statistics on the speed of
floating point operations when performed by an IEEE-compliant package
versus one which was not.  Of course, to be meaningful the data would
have to be for the same piece of hardware.

Singing off,
UNIX:/etc/ping instantiated (Ping Huang).