Re: Sun 4/110 without FPA is slower than a 3/50 without MC68881

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From: Jeremy Cook
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1989 08:21

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This has been pointed out to me too with the comment that perhaps the
software floating point calls were written strictly to IEEE standards
without any thoughts on optimisation/efficiency - does GCC perform any
better ?

-- Jeremy Cook

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