Date: Wed, 11 Aug 93 09:08:03 -0400
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To: agati AT uts340 DOT univ DOT trieste DOT it
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, pi92ae AT pt DOT hk-r DOT se
Subject: Re: Math's emulator


> > 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.