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From: jeremy@kheops.cmi.no (Jeremy Cook)
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Subject: Re: Sun 4/110 without FPA is slower than a 3/50 without MC68881
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Date: 3 Feb 89 08:21:04 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 136, message 7 of 11

This has been pointed out to me too with the comment that perhaps the
software floating point calls were written strictly to IEEE standards
without any thoughts on optimisation/efficiency - does GCC perform any
better ?

-- Jeremy Cook