Re: Does math coprocessor speed up GUI (here: OS/2 presentation mgr)?

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From: Tim Glauert
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:17

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In article <19920827.085206.286@almaden.ibm.com>, ADUNSMUI@TOROLAB6.VNET.IBM.COM (Al Dunsmuir) writes:
|> Tim,
|> 
|>   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!

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