From: teunis <teunis@computersupportcentre.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:28:01 -0700 (MST)

Re: LibGGI3D RFC

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Sengan Baring-Gould wrote:

> > 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.

as said in another message - 68040 has it (so does 030?  I thought my
little ol' macintosh has FPU?)...
Anyways - the 68K FPU may not be as fast but it's -really- smart -
according to the guy who designed the math-requirements for IEEE or
something like that (I can't remember)

> ARM has NO FPU.

Oh?  hmmmm...  (I thought it did...)  Odd.

> Digital Alpha does not have an FPU for all CPUs IIRC

But when it has it AFAIK it's -fast-!

> Cyrix is slow on the FPU until MXi.

Comparable to a scaled-up 486 - which is annoying but still usable.  I've
got one of these monsters (grrr)...

G'day, eh? :)
	- Teunis