Re: New Math Coprocessor - who has a need for it???

[gudat@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (gudat henrik)]

TAO BRIAN T (90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca) wrote:
:     Why can't math copros and DSP's speed up integer math as well? 
: Sure, FP math is slower, but int math is used in more places.
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: Brian Tao:: taob@io.org (Internex Online, 416-363-3783, 10 lines, v.32bis)
: ::::::::::: 90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (University of Toronto, 9T4)

This is a good question. Has anyone calculated an acceleration factor?
At least "fixed" math and Fracs would eventually run much faster (they
got sine and cosine functions as well...).

IMHO, the FPE patches need a major facelift anyway (without saying I'm
gonna rewrite them...ohhhh no...:)
But locating the right slot automatically wouldn't be that bad...

henrik
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