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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD slower than Linux ?
Message-ID: <E58IMo.sF@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <dkleinh.854654600@isotope.ps.uci.edu> <5crh6q$44j@synge.maths.tcd.ie> <5d830v$4bf@secmon.sarnoff.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 13:25:35 GMT
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In article <5d830v$4bf@secmon.sarnoff.com> rminnich@sarnoff.com (Ron G. Minnich) writes:
>Say it isn't so. Users who might want to use these boxes for real computing, 
>have to recompile and reinstall the math libraries? 

Surely the right way to fix this is to provide two shared libraries, one
using the FPU and one not?  Like the crypt libraries.

-- Richard
-- 
"Cake is a bistrubile cranabolic amphetamoid"