Re: NumberCruncher - Not So Good News

[GUDATH@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH (Henrik 'Ratte' Gudat)]

[number cruncher]
> like to ask is does it increase all grafics on the GS? Like the finder, 
> Windows closeing, etc. I'll see what I can do locally with the GS users 

Hi Mike,

These things (window redrawing etc.) do depend on integer math which is not
what the number cruncher is supposed to do. the number cruncher basically
replaces the SANE tool (well, parts of it) and therefore only accellerates
floating point math. After all, it's a floating point coproc...:-)

The NC is really cool for math-intensive software such as spreadsheets and math
software. As Dirk said, programs recompiled with the ORCA FPE libs can profit
from the coproc dramatically if it's not just juggling windows on the desktop.
I believe that there are even some buggy, outdated, weird programs that access 
the Number Cruncher directly, but I can't remember their names.

- bozo