Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:42:35 -0400 (EDT) | From | DUPRE Christophe <> | Subject | Re: Faster make depend |
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On Fri, 26 Jul 1996 msmith@quix.robins.af.mil wrote:
> I was a little over-general in the int/float cpu comment. > Not all arithmetic operations are equal. What I was getting > at is the division specifically. With coprocessor on some > machines (my Alpha at least) floating divs are faster.
...While on x86 hardware, AFAIK, all FPU operations are slower than integer CPU operations.
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