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>From iis!prl Tue Sep 26 10:09:59 MET 1989 remote from ethz

There was a fundamental error in part of my earlier reply to this message.
rwl@umree.ee.umr.edu (Wayne Little) suggests compiling:

> f77 -c -f68881 code.c -O code /usr/lib/68881/libm.il
                     ^^ I don't know why I saw this and
  ^^^ not this.

For code.f files, using the inline library *will* improve code performance
by placing code inline without changing the essentials of the
implementation.

What I said about the poor performance of the Sun3 C library holds, though.

Peter Lamb				uucp:  uunet!mcvax!ethz!prl
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