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Re: [Altivec Newbie] optimizing current code?

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From: Mark Day
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:06
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In article <170120011731277716%dcardani@buena.spamfree.com>, Darrin
Cardani <dcardani@buena.spamfree.com> wrote:

> As others have said, there are various libraries available. Be careful
> of vMathLib, though, as the trig functions are wacked. They are either
> very buggy, or I'm using them in some unintended way. For example, the
> sin and cos functions will return values outside of the -1 to 1 range.
> It's always repeatable, and always the same result, but it's wrong, as
> far as I can tell.

Have you reported the bug?  I'm sure the engineers would be interested
in getting that fixed right away.

-Mark
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From: Mark Day <mday@apple.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,codewarrior.mac
Subject: Re: [Altivec Newbie] optimizing current code?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:06:37 -0800
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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