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- Subject: Re: SANE calls
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- To: Daniel Tracy <sebek@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 96 11:01 MDT
- From: mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter)
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- >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Tracy <sebek@earthlink.net> writes:
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- 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.
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- -Mat
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