🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1990Jan9.044252.18617@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes:
>> 
>> 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.
>-- 

Adobe's business is BUSINESS - i.e. profits, as is that of printer
makers. Whether a FPU is worthwhile depends on how much more money
it will make for them, and a faster printer might not sell enough more.
Its complicated.