Re: Faster make depend

DUPRE Christophe (duprec@jsp.umontreal.ca)
Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:42:35 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 26 Jul 1996 msmith@quix.robins.af.mil wrote:

> I was a little over-general in the int/float cpu comment.
> Not all arithmetic operations are equal. What I was getting
> at is the division specifically. With coprocessor on some
> machines (my Alpha at least) floating divs are faster.

...While on x86 hardware, AFAIK, all FPU operations are slower than
integer CPU operations.

Christophe Dupre Universite de Montreal
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