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From: fry_b@husc4.harvard.edu (david fry)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Aztec C problem with pow() and exp(), and a fix
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Date: Mon, 20-Oct-86 11:17:57 EDT
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Keywords: floating point, slow, Manx, Aztec, C

In article <2310@psuvax1.UUCP> zaccone@psuvax1.UUCP (Rick Zaccone) writes:
[...]
>The function exp() does not work properly.  Condiser the following
>example:

	I have been pretty much displeased with the floating point libraries
provided with Aztec C.  They barely perform any better than MS-BASIC on
some benchmarks and are destroyed by True Basic, so I know that something
better is possible.
	Has anyone rewritten the floating point libraries?  I think they
could be made faster by recoding the routines in assembly, and perhaps
using better routines, but I don't know any assembly.
	Has anyone heard any news about Manx doing this?

	Thanks in advance.

David Fry				fry@huma1.harvard.EDU
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