Mail Archives: djgpp/1993/08/11/09:30:52
> > Which math emulator should I use? The emu387 that comes with my djgpp
> > package or the wm-emu387 version 0.5?
> > What I want are speed :)
> I used both, before buying a 387sx, and the fastest is, based on my
> experience, wm-emu. In any case my advice is to buy a math chip, they
> are really fast and they don't cost so much.
djgpp's emulator was not intended to be fast. It is a fairly clean
implementation in C++ that does the job and was easy to write. It
covers those users who do a few floating point ops once in a while,
but if you're doing enough math to notice the problems you probably
want a real 387.
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