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From: rminnich@sarnoff.com (Ron G. Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD slower than Linux ?
Date: 4 Feb 1997 19:34:55 GMT
Organization: David Sarnoff Research Center
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David Malone (dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) wrote:
: One thing that it might be is that the FreeBSD maths libraries don't
: have FPU code in them the way they are distributed, if you recompile
: them with HAVE_FPU=yes in /etc/make.conf this might make quite a
: difference for some things.

Say it isn't so. Users who might want to use these boxes for real computing, 
have to recompile and reinstall the math libraries? 

Maybe it's time to change this particular decision. This one makes my 
brain hurt. 

ron