Subject: Re: bad performance?
To: Michael Graff <explorer@vorpal.com>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 12/07/1993 13:34:48
> This is a dorky little speed test a friend wrote up. It runs in something
> like 55 seconds on a i486dx/33 running linux, and over 370 seconds on my
> i486dx/40!
>
> And clue what might be up? Is math processing that shitty on netbsd these
> days?
thoughts:
did the dx33 have an FPU and the dx/40 not?
(or did both not?)
the FP Emulator we have is *really* slow and ugly...
chris
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