Re: speedups
- To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
- Subject: Re: speedups
- From: kls30 at ruts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shephard)
- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 92 10:10 PDT
You would be suprised at the spped up with a FPU. Most of the MMa stuff is
floating point. There is a big win.
A crude example is Lotus on a PC. It runs about 10 times faster if the machine
has a FPU installed.
Emulating floating point using fixed point is slow at best.
Kent