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Re: FOUND! PA2.0 float performance problem

To: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh at usa dot net>
Subject: Re: FOUND! PA2.0 float performance problem
From: "Jerry Quinn" <jquinn at nortelnetworks dot com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:43:52 -0500
CC: egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
Organization: Nortel Technology
References: <199902231916.LAA01800@kankakee.wrs.com> <3.0.6.32.19990224204730.008a8e80@pop.globalserve.net>

If you are working with floats, this results in a lot of conversion
instructions, which can easily result in a 2X slowdown in our case.  The
hpux 9.05 C++ compiler does this by default, which is one of the reasons
that egcs and other compilers show a huge performance gain over it.

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References:
- Re: FOUND! PA2.0 float performance problem
  - From: Mike Stump
- Re: FOUND! PA2.0 float performance problem
  - From: Paul Derbyshire

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