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Article #4932Floating point libraries
From: Michael Eve
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1986 19:43
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1986 19:43
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With an Amiga purchase in the immediate future, I have been following the Lattice/Manx discussions, and found them very useful. One area remains unclear (actually, many areas, but one of particular concern): floating point libraries. Manx is about 7 times faster than Lattice for floating point operations. Seems to indicate Manx is using assembly-coded routines and Lattice has C-coded routines. Is it possible to write and substitute one's own floating point libraries for either compiler? I am considering hardware add-ons such as 32081 or 68881 (possibly home-brewed), and want a compiler which can take advantage of the new hardware. Also, it should be possible to speed up Lattice if the fp library can be replaced. -- Mike Eve Boeing Aerospace, Seattle ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!ssc-bee!eve
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!sri-spam!sri-unix!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!ssc-bee!eve From: eve@ssc-bee.UUCP (Michael Eve) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Floating point libraries Message-ID: <631@ssc-bee.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Oct-86 15:43:36 EDT Article-I.D.: ssc-bee.631 Posted: Tue Oct 14 15:43:36 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Oct-86 21:38:45 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 18