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- From: zstern@adobe.com (Zalman Stern)
- Subject: Re: integer distance or sqrt
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.012552.24807@adobe.com>
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- References: <6839@sungy.Germany.Sun.COM>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:25:52 GMT
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- In article <6839@sungy.Germany.Sun.COM> ulrich@weissnics.Germany.Sun.COM
- (Ulrich Graef SUN Frankfurt TSE) writes:
- [Describes methods of finding integer square root using 256 kilobyte
- tables.]
- On state of the art hardware, the limiting factor in using table lookup for
- such algorithms is not memory usage, but cache miss penalties.
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