Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 17:31:10 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: Re: max math performance - how? Message-ID: <199608210731.RAA01048@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> 386BSD used libm, which is slow. -current uses msun, which is >> slower, except possibly if it is compiled with option HAVE_FPU. >Why don't we compile it with this option? I thought the emulator will Because it only works on systems that HAVE an FPU :-). >serve those folks who don't have an FPU? We could also ship the No, the emulator doesn't support any math functions. >non-FPU lib in a separate package in releases, but i think a large >number of machines now come with an FPU as an integral part of their >system, so still defaulting to non-FPU math libs seems a little silly. There would also need to be packages for all binaries that are statically linked to libm. ps is the only one in /*bin. Bruce
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