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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Bernd "Bernie" Meyer
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 04:31
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mattsp@stat1.cc.ukans.edu (Matt Peterson) writes:

>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've been led to believe that fixed-point
>"integer" math is almost always quicker than fpu floating-point math.

You are wrong. See the source code I posted here recently.

Bernie
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From: root@wombat.hanse.de (Bernd "Bernie" Meyer)
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
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