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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
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Subject: Re: Think C4 68881/2 concurrency optimization???
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Date: 19 Dec 89 15:02:39 GMT
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In article <8912181511.AA12614@cscwam.umd.edu> rick@wam.umd.edu (Frederick E. Brown) writes:
>Hi! Does anyone know how well Think C 4.0 optimizes 68881/2 instructions for
>concurrency?  If the compiler does a pretty good job then I won't need to
>waste my time hand coding fpu instructions in assembly.
	
	It doesn't. In fact, no Mac-based compiler that I know of optimizes
the 68882 instructions for concurrency.

	(The 68882 is the only one of the two chips that supports instruction
	concurrency.)


R.



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