Floating Point-The Results Are In!
Greg Lehey
grog at lemis.com
Thu May 7 11:37:24 AEST 1998
On Wed, 6 May 1998 at 20:45:41 -0400, Ed G. wrote:
> Using a new approach, I have re-counted the number of floating point
> operations for the utilities contained in Unix's bin directory.
> According to my results, many important 7th Edition programs such as
> adb, awk and tar make heavy use of floating point on the PDP-11.
I'll believe this when you pinpoint the instructions.
Greg
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