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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: NeWS's use of floating point
Message-ID: <3399@phri.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jul 88 13:58:05 GMT
Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY
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	How much use does NeWS (we're running version 1.1) make of floating
point?  A lot of the basic PostScript stuff like scale and rotate and
scalefont seem like they almost have to be floating point intensive.  Some
of the stuff applications do, like the backgammon game calculating the arcs
along which men are moved, also seem like they must be done with floating
point.  The reason I ask is because while NeWS comes with both 68010 and
68020 versions of the server, it doesn't come with versions for the various
floating point hardware configurations.  I've got a 68881 in my
workstation; I wonder how much faster news_server would run if it was
compiled with the -f68881 flag.
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Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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