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From: "Bruce Ellis" <brucee@chunder.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] floating point
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:53:34 +1100
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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.