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- From: oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
- Subject: Re: '040 specs + DEMOS on A4000
- In-Reply-To: nilsco@ifi.uio.no's message of Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:15:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <OAHVENLA.92Nov19190647@lk-hp-4.hut.fi>
- Sender: usenet@cs.hut.fi (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1992Nov17.184951.21672@ugle.unit.no> <1992Nov18.104255.4078@daimi.aau.dk>
- <brianc.722114997@pv660a.vincent.iastate.edu>
- <1992Nov19.121502.6489@ifi.uio.no>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:06:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.121502.6489@ifi.uio.no> nilsco@ifi.uio.no (Nils Liaaen Corneliusen) writes:
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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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- Well, of course we're talking about 68030+68882 vs. 68040 optimized code here,
- yes.. Getting the kick out of an 68040 means you have to use a 68040 aware
- compiler. With C, that's SAS/C 6.0, with assembler, I don't know.
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