From: Hartmut Schirmer <hsc AT techfak DOT uni-kiel DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Any tips on optimizing C code?
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 07:59:24 +0200
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quark(particle) wrote:
> and I have a Pentium. and a 486.  pentium is better
> with floting point numbers than the 486, but nothing
> beats clean integer math.

Well, if you're doing implicit integer math (like array access) modern
machines will excecute floating point instructions in parallel -
enourmous speed up on all matrix/vector like calculations.

Hartmut
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