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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: Ada95 speed
Date: 1999/05/19
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In article <3741B203.4890880B@Maths.UniNe.CH>,
  Gautier <Gautier.deMontmollin@Maths.UniNe.CH> wrote:

> and the removal of the hidden Sqrt helps surely
> even more...
>
> --
> Gautier

Don't assume that a square root is necesarily that expensive.
On some architectures, square root is comparable in speed
to a floating-point division, not so terrible ....


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