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Subject: Re: Fixed Point (Optimization)
Date: 20 Jan 1997 22:46:13 GMT
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|> You must notice that while floating point ADDITION is very much slower
|> than integer addition, this doesn't prove that for ie. multipliction would
|> be equally more faster. In fact, floating point multipliction is at least
|> as fast (if not faster) than integer one.
|> 
|> Just some of my humble thoughts...

it is indeed faster :) 1-7 cycles for a fmul, 11 for a mul (on a pentium)
see my thread about floating point stuff being faster.

|> 
|> Aatu Koskensilta aka Sqrt(-1)
|> www.sci.fi/~zaphod

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