>From: "Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
>Date: Tue, 07 Dec 93 14:18:52 -0800
>
>> It took 330 seconds on my DX50 (NetBSD current).
>
>i just tried the program on sun-lamp. in doing so,
>i noticed that it needs libm.  that's the problem right there.
>
>NetBSD's libm uses C functions to do all of the math operations,
>because the emulator does poorly enough on some of them that using
>the FP instructions is "dangerous"...

So, even if I have a coprocessor and remove 'option MATH_EMULATE' from
my kernel config, I'm *still* not using the coprocessor?

>what really needs to happen is the emulator needs to be improved,
>so that we can use a rational libm (i.e. one that acutally
>uses the math coprocessor)...

Does anyone have an alternate libm that does use the coprocessor?

>chris

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