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From: stevo@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Steve Groom)
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Subject: Re: Fortran 300 times faster than C for computing cosine
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Date: 6 May 89 00:25:24 GMT
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chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:
>Does anyone know of an optimizer which will convert calls to the standard
>math routines to their 68881 instruction counterparts?

/usr/lib/inline.  Try "cc -c foo.c /usr/lib/f68881/libm.il".  Better yet,
take a look at the Sun Floating Point Programmer's Guide (in the 4.0
manual set).

-steve

Steve Groom, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 91109
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