Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpcupt1!hpindwa!raj 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 References: <5097@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino CA Lines: 7 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