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From: "Bruce Ellis" <brucee@chunder.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] floating point
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:53:34 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <027201c3ef81$14f499e0$8201a8c0@cc77109e> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61e4519c35cb989708d4b09ef8bb177b@plan9.bell-labs.com>

this may have originally been the case but a lot of the code in com64.c
never gets reached because of earlier 'optimizations'.  maybe "messy"
was too harsh.

brucee
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Presotto" <presotto@closedmind.org>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] floating point


> It's not messy, just inefficient.  Everything is done by calls to routines that
> take an operator and operands and then call more routines to do the work.  It
> would be nice if adds and subtracts and shifts are done inline and only mul/div
> is done the hard way.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-10  2:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-09 23:43 Bruce Ellis
2004-02-10  0:14 ` a
2004-02-10  1:44 ` David Presotto
2004-02-10  1:57   ` Bruce Ellis
2004-02-10  2:06     ` David Presotto
2004-02-10  2:53       ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2004-02-10  2:13 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2004-02-12 22:16 Andrew Simmons
2004-02-13  1:32 ` Bruce Ellis

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