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Date:      Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:18:37 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        James Healy <jhealy@swin.edu.au>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Lawrence Stewart <lastewart@swin.edu.au>
Subject:   Re: floating point operations
Message-ID:  <86odeewcgi.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <47291254.9030909@swin.edu.au> (James Healy's message of "Thu\, 01 Nov 2007 10\:40\:04 %2B1100")
References:  <47291254.9030909@swin.edu.au>

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James Healy <jhealy@swin.edu.au> writes:
> The remaining op is not easily converted to fixed point math, and we're
> wondering what impact a single flop on the receipt of each ACK will
> have. We don't have a strong understanding of the amount of overhead
> involved in executing a flop instead of an int op on modern hardware.

Search the archives before posting.  This precise topic was discussed
here earlier this week.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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