Re: FPE Demand?

[bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

fl332@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John L. Graham) writes:

>Hi Jawaid!
>         That's one approach I want to try and see how much speed
>difference there is. Once I get my current project behind me (a nifty
>little interpolation utility) I'll have more time to experiment.
>Two approaches came to mind immediately. First, use extended values.
>Second, use fixed point values and the Integer Toolset. Also, I wanted
>to ask if it was you who wrote a neat little demo I saw on AOL that
>called Applesoft's math routine's from Pascal? The speed improvement
>was about as large as I see between SANE and AC/BASIC. 

  I believe that was the company that did "Second Chance", the image
processing utility. I recall they used the AppleSoft FP routines
because they were so much faster.

>Lastly IF an
>FPE became readily available I wouldn't hesitate to write software
>that would benefit from it. 

  I'll certainly keep that in mind. :)

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