[Openmcl-devel] Floating point performance

[Paul Onions]

On 30 Jan 2010, at 21:32, Gary Byers wrote:

> On a G5, Paul's test case seems to be "bad, but not extremely bad"
> in 32-bit CCL running on a G5, and Paul's seeing extremely bad
> results on a machine where those SQRT instructions are being emulated
> (1000000 times ...).

Okay, but if I don't have a SQRT instruction then how is CMUCL able to  
go so fast?

BTW I'm on a iBook G4 1.07GHz. Will try and find out more about this  
processor...

Paul