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From: rmarks@KSP.Unisys.COM (Richard Marks)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: FRACTINT   how fast is it if you have 387 or 387 and wietek?
Message-ID: <698@bbking.KSP.Unisys.COM>
Date: 6 Jun 89 14:15:06 GMT
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Organization: Unisys/Knowledge Systems Projects, Frazer, PA
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In article <23096@srcsip.UUCP> rogers@falcon.UUCP (Brynn Rogers) writes:
>It seems like the fractint goes at great lengths to run integer only.
>We have a 386/20 here with both the 387 and the wietek FP accelerator here.
>it seems like the right fractint on this machine should smoke.

I posted FRACTINT for the author, Bert Tyler.  The 32 bit integer 
arithmetic goes faster than the 387.  I forget the exact speed ratio 
but I think it is 6 times faster.  In fact Bert originally got 
interested in the fractle program when he got a version that used
the FP processor and tried various ways to speed it up.

Richard Marks