From:	Kevin AT Quitt DOT net (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Is DJGPP that efficient?
Date:	Mon, 16 Dec 1996 01:25:07 GMT
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On Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:09:38 GMT, "Pin F. Sun"
<pfsun AT undergrad DOT math DOT uwaterloo DOT ca> wrote:
>I just changed some heavily used mathematical functions to assembly,
>surprisingly, the performance gain is only 10%.

Without being too facetious, the problem is that the Intel architecture is
so poorly suited for such calculations that the optimal is still none too
good.  But yes, DJGPP is pretty good.

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