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From: moncam!paul@uunet.uu.net (Paul Hudson)
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Subject: Re: Fortran 300 times faster than C for computing cosine
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Date: 6 May 89 00:49:44 GMT
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Whatever the question, the answer is GNU!

Using GNU gcc wonderful extended asm statement + inline functions it's
quite possible to have cos just generate the fp opcode. A header file to
do it was recently posted to bug-gcc.  I think I have it squirreled away
somewhere ....

Paul Hudson 

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