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FP performance

FP performance

Posted Feb 5, 2007 22:06 UTC (Mon) by evgeny (guest, #774)
In reply to: FP performance by corbet
Parent article: Comparing Linux and Minix

Well, all results are FP numbers, so at least some FP operations are used in every test. If the FP performance counters are updates inside the loops, this might me essential (since the emulated FP is orders of magnitude slower). It would be interesting to force Linux to use emulated FP and re-run the tests (or run the benchmarks on a 386SX box ;-)).


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