Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 22:32:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: Re: max math performance - how? Message-ID: <199608202032.WAA17791@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199608201445.AAA32287@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Aug 21, 96 00:45:39 am"
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > 386BSD used libm, which is slow. -current uses msun, which is > slower, except possibly if it is compiled with option HAVE_FPU. Why don't we compile it with this option? I thought the emulator will serve those folks who don't have an FPU? We could also ship the non-FPU lib in a separate package in releases, but i think a large number of machines now come with an FPU as an integral part of their system, so still defaulting to non-FPU math libs seems a little silly. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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