From: Bill Lachance <billl AT synapse DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Future of Allegro (?)
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 18:43:58 -0800
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mushashi AT geocities DOT com wrote:
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>     mushashi AT geocities DOT com wrote:
> >      This also gives a slight performance improvement if your computer has
> >      hardware support for floating point maths.
> >      The real issue is to make allegro use the math processor if there is one.
> I checked better today.The above was based on some very quick tests.
> Some of the routines in the fixed point math part of allegro seems to be very
> good even compared with math processors.

I think that's because Allegro uses look-up tables for most of its trig
functions, which would of course make them very fast. 

Bill Lachance
billl AT synapse DOT net