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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: Q re floating point operations
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 03:23:37 GMT
Date: 2005-11-09T03:23:37+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZYdcf.1852$Id6.950@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dkrjmn$peg$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>

Bobby D. Bryant wrote:

> How come on an x86 architecture 64-bit multiplications (GNAT
> Long_Float) are just as fast as 32-bit multiplications (GNAT Float)?

Probably because they're both done using 80-bit registers.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"My brain hurts!"
Monty Python's Flying Circus
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-09  3:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-09  1:34 Q re floating point operations Bobby D. Bryant
2005-11-09  3:23 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2005-11-09 14:54 ` Steve
2005-12-01  0:10   ` Randy Brukardt
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