Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/12/16/01:34:49
> It's fast but register poor. That means unless you're doing multiply and
> accumulate, you're spending a hell of a lot of time moving things into and
> out of the FPU. Compare it to an FPU that has eight registers.
Ummm...Ok, I really have to say this: What the hell are you talking
about? :)
The FPU in the pentium HAS EIGHT registers... so, comparing it to an FPU
with
8 registers is like comparing apples and apples...
> Also, unless I miss my guess, it's still not completely IEEE compliant in
> that it doesn't implement the basic trig function set (partial tangent), not
> to mention hyperbolics, or something as useful as simultaneous sin and cos.
Wrong again... :) Well, the simultaneous sin and cos is there, and I am
not too sure about the hyperbolics (I've never needed it!)
Go to http://www.x86.org and have a look around... :)
Leathal.
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