Message-ID: <32B50729.4D9A@gbrmpa.gov.au> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 16:24:13 +0800 From: Leath Muller Reply-To: leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au Organization: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin AT Quitt DOT net CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Is DJGPP that efficient? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > It's fast but register poor. That means unless you're doing multiply and > accumulate, you're spending a hell of a lot of time moving things into and > out of the FPU. Compare it to an FPU that has eight registers. Ummm...Ok, I really have to say this: What the hell are you talking about? :) The FPU in the pentium HAS EIGHT registers... so, comparing it to an FPU with 8 registers is like comparing apples and apples... > Also, unless I miss my guess, it's still not completely IEEE compliant in > that it doesn't implement the basic trig function set (partial tangent), not > to mention hyperbolics, or something as useful as simultaneous sin and cos. Wrong again... :) Well, the simultaneous sin and cos is there, and I am not too sure about the hyperbolics (I've never needed it!) Go to http://www.x86.org and have a look around... :) Leathal.