From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fedc2d05e82c9174 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Calculating SQRT in ADA Date: 1999/04/03 Message-ID: <7e502l$dfd$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 462243721 References: <7dbv6t$4u5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <19990324201959.00800.00000708@ngol04.aol.com> <7dei9a$dvo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7dhjhi$27a$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36FFF83A.BE789C93@mitre.org> <7dq5b2$2dk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3705555E.5572A782@mitre.org> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x11.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 166.72.82.229 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Apr 03 12:03:35 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3705555E.5572A782@mitre.org>, "Robert I. Eachus" wrote: > For the integer case, a div.l takes about 90 clocks on > a 68020 We are NOT talking about the integer case! We are NOT talking about obsolete CISC machines! We are talking about modern RISC processors with fast floating-point units. Look at the start of this thread, it is clear that the focus is floating-point. Now, backup your original statement that NR is not the fastest approach in this environment. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own