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Article #144Re: 387 and C Set/2
From: Dave Mooney
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 16:45
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 16:45
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In <manne.720729792@Minsk> Magnus L|vkvist writes:
> In the C Set/2 manuals about hardware reqs it says something like "you ought
> to have a 486 or 387 since it will improve floating-point speed".
>
> I hope they mean the speed of apps created by the compiler which use a lot of
> floating-points and not the speed of the compiler (when compiling the apps)?!
You hope correctly. There are places where the compiler uses floating
point, but they are for the most part places where the compiler is folding
constant expressions containing floating-point in your own code. Adding a
387 chip shouldn't speed up the compiler any noticable amount.
dave
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C Set/2 Development, IBM Canada Lab, 844 Don Mills Rd, Toronto, Ontario
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!vnet.ibm.com From: dmm@vnet.ibm.com (Dave Mooney) Message-ID: <19921103.084518.900@almaden.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 11:45:02 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer Subject: Re: 387 and C Set/2 Organization: IBM Canada Lab News-Software: UReply 3.0 References: <manne.720729792@Minsk> Lines: 18