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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: DOES A 387 HELP WIN/3.1?
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- References: <1992Dec29.164410.26667@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec29.175519.16238@nynexst.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:18:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.175519.16238@nynexst.com> fischman@nynexst.com writes:
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- >I'm gonna jump in here and agree with Fred. The performance of the
- >application >is different from the performance of the WINDOWS
- >environment. No matter how an >application is written, the overhead
- >introduced by the OS is essentially the same. >The fact is, a numeric
- >coprocessor does nothing for the WINDOWS environment. It >will only
- >help an application which requires number crunching.
-
- No argument, but I think apps that use the coprocessor are a
- bit more numerous than we think. There was a similar discussion
- almost a year ago and someone reported a speedup in Word 2.0
- when he added a copro. Why would a wordprocessor use floating
- point? Well, perhaps for microjustification? Or kerning? Or one
- of the myriad other things that involve page layout? I'll bet
- Pagemaker does too.
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