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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Speed: 68040 vs. 68060
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 23:04:48 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- daeron@horus.co.jyu.fi (Aki Laukkanen) writes:
-
- >Interesting, can a 68060 do simple float operations in one cycle
- >(fadd,fsub..)? Then it has gone a long way since 882/040FPU.
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- 3 cycles.
-
- >And usually compilers don't tend to spread branch and floating point
- >instructions around integer instructions just to get peak performance from the
- >processor. ;)
-
- Well, the SAS compiler at least knows the floating point instructions. On some
- of my programs it performed exceptionally good.
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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