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Re: SANE calls



>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Tracy <sebek@earthlink.net> writes:

    Daniel> A while ago I posted asking when FPU emulation will be
    Daniel> implemented, but I guess I didn't understand that most
    Daniel> Macs make calls to the MacOS for FPU operations. Am I
    Daniel> correct in assuming that in Executor SANE calls are mapped
    Daniel> to the FPU hardware on my 686? The speed test program that
    Daniel> comes with it whips up some fairly impressive FPU
    Daniel> scores...

Yes, that's exactly right.  Floating point could even be a lot faster
than it is, but we just don't have time to work on optimizing SANE
right now.

-Mat


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