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From: raj@hpindwa.HP.COM (Richard Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: 9000/825 integer performance
Message-ID: <36280001@hpindwa.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Aug 89 19:46:13 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino CA
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why is floating-point faster than integer???

one reason could be that the floating point is going to a co-processor,
and the integer is being handled by millicode...

...your performance will vary

raj