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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD-0.1/BRLCAD4.0 benchmark -- poor floating point performance Message-ID: <158bshINNt1b@disaster.Germany.EU.net> Date: 30 Jul 92 09:13:53 GMT References: <l7ctu0INN880@neuro.usc.edu> Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 20 NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net In article <l7ctu0INN880@neuro.usc.edu>, merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes: > point operations (+, -, /, *) but not for higher functions -- these go > to /usr/src/lib/libm/ieee/support.c where they get emulated (ie _sqrt) > very slowly. Perhaps someone has a redistributable i386 library which > could be plugged in place of the default 4.3BSD mathematics library. I started writing such a beast. However, error handling needs to be implemented. If there isn't anything more complete (and correct :) around I'll make it available. Cheers, Bernard -- Bernard Steiner, FB Informatik/IRB, Uni Dortmund, vox +49 231 755 2444 Postfach 500500, D-W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany fax +49 231 755 2386 bs@Germany.EU.net ...!uunet!unido!bs *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome, *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV