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- From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: 386BSD-0.1/BRLCAD4.0 benchmark -- poor floating point performance
- Date: 30 Jul 1992 09:13:53 GMT
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- In article <l7ctu0INN880@neuro.usc.edu>, merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
- > point operations (+, -, /, *) but not for higher functions -- these go
- > to /usr/src/lib/libm/ieee/support.c where they get emulated (ie _sqrt)
- > very slowly. Perhaps someone has a redistributable i386 library which
- > could be plugged in place of the default 4.3BSD mathematics library.
-
- I started writing such a beast. However, error handling needs to be implemented.
-
- If there isn't anything more complete (and correct :) around I'll make it
- available.
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- Cheers,
- Bernard
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