Re: MS Fortran Math from Lightspeed Pascal

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From: wmcb
Date: Wed, 06 May 1987 15:39

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In article <AUbWBNy00UhTyGo0BW@andrew.cmu.edu> rs4u#@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Richard Siegel) writes:
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>I am about to start writing code to make it possible to call
>MS Fortran's floating-point math routines from Lightspeed Pascal
>(or any other, for thatmatter). I'm doing this because MS Fortran's 
>math is about a factor of 10 faster than SANE is (on a regular Mac).
>
 true, but what about the accuracy of the routines - does anyone know
what tradeoff's were made to get the speed ?  I'd want to know that
first - especially in the transcendetal routines, etc. Also, can the
environment be altered and monitored as in SANE ? 

I'd really be interested in the answers to these (there are several
LSP programs I have the would love to be an order of magnitude faster!!)
Any kind soul that would post and/or email the answers would have my
eternal (or at least until Friday) gratitude...
        
Bill
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B. Bauldry           wmcb@ecsvax.UUCP or whatever
Dept of Math Sci
Appalachian State U
Boone, NC  28608
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Subject: Re: MS Fortran Math from Lightspeed Pascal
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