Messages in this thread | | | From | (TANAKA Yoshitomo) | Subject | Re: ideas | Date | 12 May 1996 02:18:37 +0900 |
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In article <m0uHf7M-23AqtYC@thune>, Mike Castle <mcastle@umr.edu> wrote: >Amazingly enough Nick Holloway said: >> The area where gawk falls down badly is on machines with no FPU. The >> emulation of floating point operations causes "make depend" to crawl. > >????? > >Why is FP necessary to do a make depend?
I think it means kernel make depend. It uses gawk many times, and gawk use floating point heavily.
[digression] Some years before, I bought 80387 for gawk under DOS ;-). Execution speed was different greatly even if few numerical expressions in script.
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