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- From: kk@cs.tu-berlin.de (Kolja Kaehler)
- Subject: Re: Does a 387 help Linux's performance?
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- ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
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- :
- : Where is most of the floating point taking place, in the server or the
- : clients?
- :
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- It depends on the kind of clients you want to run; obviously, if you want
- to do raytracing, performance would increase wastly if the client used a fpu.
- If your clients do a lot of graphics requests which should be processed as
- fast as possible to speed up display (e.g. an interactive drawing program)
- the server should be provided with the fpu.
- Of course things are not always that easy ... (I'm not sure which solution
- would be best for ghostview, for example).
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- :
- : --
- : Jim H.
- : *
- : * James L. Henrickson
- : * ujlh@sunyit.edu "Some day I might have a real .signature!"
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- Kolja
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- Kolja Kaehler <kk@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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