🚀 go-pugleaf

woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes:
> baffico@adobe.COM (Tom Baffico) writes:
> >...As to the benefit of having a FPU, for most controllers the performance
> > increase is actually quite small.
> 
> AS to the benifits of a FPU, I am certain that the speedup would matter.

I tend to agree with Tom, and while I haven't investigated it, I assume
that Adobe has.  Intuitively, it seems reasonable; I'd think the down'n'
dirty work of the font rendering would be mostly fixed point.  Probably a
lot of it is not numerical work at all.  Still, as I suggest, I ASSume that
Adobe knows what they're doing.

Woody - please submit some evidence that an FPU would make some useful
speedup in a PostScript controller.  I don't mean your conjecture; I mean
some real evidence, or solid reasoning.  Since, once again, you're trying
to tell Adobe that they don't know their business, the burden of proof is
on you.
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