From: Kbwms AT aol DOT com
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 15:09:35 EDT
To: rudd AT cyberoptics DOT com
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
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Subject: Re: libc math function upgrade work
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Dear Eric Rudd,

On 10-12-98 at 13:54:00 EST you wrote:
>
> > Appended is a table of execution times for the tests involves.  The
> > times are meant for comparison purposes only because America Online
> > - a well-known CPU hog - was running simultaneously.
>
> I would guess that these times are dominated by something other than
> function computations, since they seem so similar.

What is shown is that your log, pow, sin/cos, sinh/cosh, sqrt, tan and
tanh functions are roughly twice as fast as the libm.a versions.


K.B. Williams