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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: slow math library
Date: 21 Nov 1994 19:18:19 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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References: <EYMUB1UR@math.fu-berlin.de>
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In article <EYMUB1UR@math.fu-berlin.de>,
Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>one problem for me - the math-library (floating-point-operations) seem to be
>very slow (factor 2-4 slower like under linux on the same machine) - i've

What hardware are you running?  Does it have a FPU?  If not, then you
should compile in the GNU FPE from Linux, which should cause you to have
the exact same speed in FP operations.


Nate
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