Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1998/10/14/13:09:24
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Eric Rudd wrote:
>
> > I observed about 10-20% variation on various compiles, probably due to code
> > alignment differences, but on the average the new routines are about three
> > times faster than libm.
>
> Was that with libm.a from DJGPP v2.01 or from the alpha release of
> v2.02? Libm was replaced by a new and a very different version in the
> last alpha release of v2.02. (I expect the new version be slower than
> the old, but you can never know until you test.)
I used the libm.a dated 98-07-26 from a recent 2.02 alpha release. As I recall,
the old libm had some assembler routines that were about as fast as the existing
libc routines, but also had accuracy problems.
-Eric Rudd
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