Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 16:10:24 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: floating-point speed
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.93.970121155211.2597A-100000@gibson.eee.upd.edu.ph>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII


hello,

 i've been reading the past few posts about FP speed.. i would like to
know if it's possible/profitable to have a modified pow() function. is the
pow() done by the FP unit? i'm working on an MPEG audio codec and i found
out that 60% of the time is spent in pow()..

 tia


.-----------------------------------------------------------------.
| Orlando Andico                email: orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph |
| IRC Lab/EE Dept/UP Diliman   http://gibson.eee.upd.edu.ph/~orly |
|  "through adventure we are not adventuresome" -- 10000 Maniacs  |
`-----------------------------------------------------------------'