From: aho450s AT nic DOT smsu DOT edu (Tony O'Bryan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: floating point is... fast???
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 02:36:34 GMT
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On Mon, 20 Jan 1997 02:27:26 GMT, Leath Muller <leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au> wrote:

>point unit to do the operations - thus an integer mul/divide has the
>overhead of converting the int -> float, div/mul, then float -> int.
>Whereas the floating point calculations just do the div/mul...

This doesn't make sense to me, especially for processors that don't even have
floating point units ( <= 486sx).