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- From: tbk@sn.no (Thore Bjerklund Karlsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: FPU speeds
- Date: 13 Jan 1996 14:03:32 +0100
- Organization: SN Internett
- Message-ID: <4d8aj4$3vq@sinsen.sn.no>
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- (Andrew Bennett)
-
- > >> SS> : It rotates a vector using a matrix yes.
- > >> SS> : Log(a+b) is the same as a*b, so all the mul's are now add's.
-
- > >> Should be: log(a*b)=log(a)+log(b)
- > >> ie a*b=exp(log(a)+log(b))
-
- > TBK> ie BIG tables..
-
- > Nope! I wrote a fast log routine a bit back that used a 64 byte "table
- >something like a 16k table and one mulu (for linear interpolation) is
- >preferable speed-wise.
-
- But in the rotation routine example you need about 256k of tables to
- use word numbers. Only moves..
-
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