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- From: sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen M. Lacy)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Does math coprocessor speed up GUI (here: OS/2 presentation mgr)?
- Message-ID: <0ebb_Z600VpQ4RZW4G@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 10:38:29 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.0ebb_Z600VpQ4RZW4G
- Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- Lines: 19
- In-Reply-To: <1992Aug28.141752.23615@cam-orl.co.uk>
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- >|> My understanding is that PMX performs not only the standard MIT X server
- >|> functions, but must translate the X-windows actions into the equivalent PM
- >|> actions. Apparently this intermediate layer has the floating-point code in
- >|> question.
- >
- >But this thread started with the claim that PM was fast because it was all
- >integer. So these guys are coverting from int to float and then back to int
- >again? Bizarre!
-
- Ok, I've just purchased a used 387DX that I'm going to place in my
- computer. We'll see how much of a performance increase results. I
- should have the chip by the end of the next week.
-
- Steve
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- "Eight o'clock in the morning and the daylight makes me look and feel
- like hell" -OMD
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