Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: iis!prl@uunet.uu.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: 68881 Floating Point Speed Increase on Sun 3/60 Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <1684@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 26 Sep 89 09:10:44 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 22 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 135, message 2 of 14 >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 Tel: (01) 256 5241 (Switzerland) eunet: prl@iis.ethz.ch +411 256 5241 (International) Integrated Systems Laboratory ETH-Zentrum 8092 Zurich