Subject: Re: bad performance?
To: Michael Graff <explorer@vorpal.com>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 12/07/1993 13:34:48
> This is a dorky little speed test a friend wrote up.  It runs in something
> like 55 seconds on a i486dx/33 running linux, and over 370 seconds on my
> i486dx/40!
> 
> And clue what might be up?  Is math processing that shitty on netbsd these
> days?

thoughts:
	did the dx33 have an FPU and the dx/40 not?

(or did both not?)

the FP Emulator we have is *really* slow and ugly...


chris

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