RE: [Dev-C++] how to improve mingw performance

[Ioannis V. <iv...@em...>]

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> Of Alessandro Oliveira
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 7:00 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] how to improve mingw performance
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> Have you ever heard about early pentiums without math processor ?
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> the computer lab guys told me that these compaqs doesn't have a math=20
> processor,
> I don't think this is true, but you know, OEMs do whatever is=20
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> in order to raise their profits.
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> I don't know if this would affect performance anyway.


Only Intel processors up to 386 had not an integrated math unit. I do =
not
recall about other manufacturers of the time like AMD and Cyrix but all
systems with an optional math-coprocessor were of the 386 generation. =
i486
was the first processor with an intergated math-unit. So if you have =
pentium
I can't see how it is possible to not have a math unit. And 5 minutes =
sounds
strangely too much (unless it was an expression of exageration like the
expression "it takes 10 hours to compile").



Ioannis Vranos
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