> Tables that big start to cost you in cache misses what you saved in
> multiplies
In all fairness, the table driven approach was proposed
for processors with slow multiplies, and these would
probably also have less of a CPU clock/main memory
latency mismatch, making cache pollution perhaps less
important.
Using the tables on typical desktop processor wouldn't
make much sense, I think.
Paul
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