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Re: FPE Demand?

Subject: Re: FPE Demand?
From: bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar)
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 11:10:41 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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References: <bazyarD2I34r.BHK@netcom.com> <3fjjpt$1fcu@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca> <HOCKLEYD.95Jan20112215@dec3300.cuug.ab.ca> <3ft7da$d0o@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <D2u45u.H6F@actrix.gen.nz>

dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:

>In article <3ft7da$d0o@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
>Nathan Mates <nathan@cco.caltech.edu> wrote:

>>    Orca compatability? Orca won't be sped up much at all by a
>> _Floating_Point_ accelerator. (Read: it'll take the sine of 2.5 faster
>> than unaccelerated.)

>Is that all?  I would have expected a greater speed improvement.

  He didn't mean it'll take _a_ sine 2.5 times faster. He was just
making a relative comparison (a FPE chip is faster than software). :-)

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References:
- Re: FPE Demand?
  - From: hockleyd@dec3300.cuug.ab.ca (Dallas Hockley)
- Re: FPE Demand?
  - From: nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)
- Re: FPE Demand?
  - From: dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)

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