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Article #13754Re: Floating point Fortran
From: Richard Siegel
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1986 01:51
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1986 01:51
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Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Position: Confused Undergraduate
To get MS/Absoft Fortran to use the 68881, you need to purchase from {Absoft,
Microsoft} a version of the compiler that includes a library that does the
68881 calls instead of the Absoft floating-point package. I believe you can
purchase that library separately, or as part of MacFortran/020, which is a
68020 Fortran compiler.
Sorry, I can't help as to the price...
By the way, MacFortran's floating-point performance on a regular Macintosh is
simply INCREDIBLE; it's on the order of 10 times faster than SANE at {x, /,
+, -}; I'm not sure of the improvement for transcendentals. It's a shame that
those routines can't be used by other programs, perhaps in place of the
regular SANE package...
Good luck!
--Rich
Richard M. Siegel
Arpanet: rs4u@andrew.cmu.edu (the only way to get to me!)
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