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From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: FYI.. benchmarks on linux and 386bsd
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References: <CEMA3n.DuE@rex.uokhsc.edu> <1993Oct9.191335.3202@Belvedere%hip-hop.suvl.ca.us> <1993Oct13.132032.22762@swan.pyr> <CEuF4C.5x9@festival.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 06:49:06 GMT
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In <CEuF4C.5x9@festival.ed.ac.uk> richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:

>In article <1993Oct13.132032.22762@swan.pyr> iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes:
>>This is odd. They use the same coprocessor emulator.

>It may well be that most of the time is taken in handling the exceptions,
>rather than actually emulating the instructions.
Doesn't the original 386bsd use an old version of Linus's math
code?

Geoff.
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