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, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a30e9cc47b5029fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: ratioanl number type Date: 1999/12/12 Message-ID: <82upl4$dra$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 559520313 References: <38473D8A.9BB68676@gte.net> <3847E5B3.B96339A8@iforex.net> <385252FF.BB4C7A5@gte.net> <01bf43ea$646d5bc0$022a6282@dieppe> <38527A46.B4833D6A@gte.net> <01bf43f3$3aadb600$022a6282@dieppe> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x37.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 170.1.222.94 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Sun Dec 12 00:18:47 1999 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-12-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , "Vladimir Olensky" wrote: > Maybe only some core assembler routines that make use of > processor SIMD extensions. That would allow drastically > improve efficiency. Well we know Vladimir likes the SIMD extensions, but knowing them well, and having written many high efficiency assembly language packages for multi-precision arithmetic, my opinion is that they won't be any help at all in this particular task. Vladimir, have you actually done assembly coding using these instructions? And have you looked at their specs in detail? Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.