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From: jpo@kappa.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Joerg Pommnitz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: FYI.. benchmarks on linux and 386bsd
Date: 14 Oct 1993 10:28:47 +0100
Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG
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References: <CEMA3n.DuE@rex.uokhsc.edu> <1993Oct9.191335.3202@Belvedere%hip-hop.suvl.ca.us> <1993Oct13.132032.22762@swan.pyr>
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iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes:
>>One thing I'd like to point out that in my particular experience,
>>floating-point sans coprocessor on 386BSD was miserably slow in
>>comparison to Linux. I tried a whetstone benchmark and it took over
>This is odd. They use the same coprocessor emulator.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Alan
>iiitac@pyr.swan.ac.uk
No, they don't.
Bill Metzenhen (sp ?) has donated his FPUEmu to Linux. This code is much
better than the original emulator from Linus.
Joerg