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- From: nilsco@ifi.uio.no (Nils Liaaen Corneliusen)
- Subject: Re: '040 specs + DEMOS on A4000
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.121502.6489@ifi.uio.no>
- Sender: nilsco@ifi.uio.no (Nils Liaaen Corneliusen)
- Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
- References: <1992Nov17.184951.21672@ugle.unit.no> <1992Nov18.104255.4078@daimi.aau.dk> <brianc.722114997@pv660a.vincent.iastate.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:15:02 GMT
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- In article <brianc.722114997@pv660a.vincent.iastate.edu>, brianc@iastate.edu (Brian J Cerveny) writes:
- > In <1992Nov18.104255.4078@daimi.aau.dk> u920659@daimi.aau.dk (Carsten S|rensen) writes:
- > >geirh@solan.unit.no (Geir Haugen) writes:
- > >> instructions in hardware. All other 68882 instructions (i.e.
- > >> sin, cos, exp) are emulated in software.
- > >Eh, how fast are they then?
- > Still faster than the 68882 built-ins.
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- But are you taking the exception overhead into account when saying that? Of
- course, sw written especially for the '040 is faster. But programs for the
- 030/882 running on a 040 could actually be running slower since it has to
- emulate this through exceptions.
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