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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
Subject: Re: max math performance - how?
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>I digged out a scientific test I compiled some time back in 386bsd times.
>At that time I hacked around with different libms and I had a binary
>lying around (statically linked) which outperforms every newly linked
>version of that benchmark. (It is a bunch of fortran programs, the
>so called 'Lund' benchmark from Lund University - a program that
>physicists are mainly interested in seeing perform fast). 

>Now I have no idea what I did at that time - maybe I took some
>early verrsion of the libmsun or was there something different
>in 386bsd days (Bruce?)

386BSD used libm, which is slow.  -current uses msun, which is
slower, except possibly if it is compiled with option HAVE_FPU.

Bruce