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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!Germany.EU.net!news From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 386bsd math library replacement? Date: 8 Jul 1993 13:56:24 +0200 Organization: EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 24 Distribution: world Message-ID: <21h218$s96@Germany.EU.net> References: <1993Jul8.101253.6441@qualcomm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net In article <1993Jul8.101253.6441@qualcomm.com>, karn@unix.ka9q.ampr.org (Phil Karn) writes: |> Is anyone working on a replacement for the (apparently) NET-2 derived |> math library in 386BSD? I noticed that there's precious little code |> that takes direct advantage of the FPU's special functions. Most of it |> appears written with portability to other IEEE 754 environments being |> more important than performance. Some functions actually break when |> you try to use the FPU's full capabilities (e.g., going to full |> extended double precision breaks the floor() function). A first guesstimate is to use gcc 2.whatever with -ffast-math in order to really speed up things. The other point is that about a year ago the (GNU ?) mathlib was put on various ftp servers... Ciao, -Bernard -- ===== ____ ===== EUnet Deutschland GmbH ===== / / / ___ ___ _/_ ===== Emil-Figge-Str. 80 ===== /---- / / / / /___/ / ===== D-44227 Dortmund ===== /____ /___/ / / /___ / ===== Germany ======= ======= Vox +49 231 972 00 ======= Connecting Europe since 1982 ======= Fax +49 231 972 1111