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  From: Sengan Baring-Gould <sengan@seqnet.net>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:14:46 -0600

Re: LibGGI3D RFC

> and AFAIK faster on -Intel-(!) Pentium (and above), PowerPC, MIPS, Alpha,
> and maybe others (68K? Dunno here).  Incidentally, clones of Intel chips
> (Cyrix as an example here) tend to be slower in FPU last I saw...  but
> still are fast.  (integer add/subtract is usually faster (not on
> Pentium-II), integer multiply/divide tends to be scads slower)

68K has no FPU chip internally... but there sort of old, and newer boards have the
FPU AFAIK.
ARM has NO FPU.
Digital Alpha does not have an FPU for all CPUs IIRC
Cyrix is slow on the FPU until MXi.

Sengan

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