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Re: speedups

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  • Subject: Re: speedups
  • From: jacobson at cello.hpl.hp.com
  • Date: Tue, 02 Jun 92 10:09:58 -0700

Richard Fateman asks if a hardware accelerator speeds up Mathematica
very much.  He points out that it does thousands of instructions for
every floating point instruction.  This observation is correct.
However, there are built-in functions that Mathematica does
differently.  For example if you invert a matrix of all machine
floats, Mathematica copies the numbers into a separate area, then
calls the Linpack routine DGEDI.  For this, an acclerator will help a
lot.

  -- David Jacobson






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