Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09917 for pups-liszt; Thu, 7 May 1998 11:14:32 +1000 (EST) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA09912 for ; Thu, 7 May 1998 11:14:26 +1000 (EST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id LAA21487; Thu, 7 May 1998 11:07:24 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980507110724.M396@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 11:07:24 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: edgee@cyberpass.net, pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Subject: Re: Floating Point-The Results Are In! References: <199805070045.UAA04653@renoir.op.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199805070045.UAA04653@renoir.op.net>; from Ed G. on Wed, May 06, 1998 at 08:45:41PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Precedence: bulk 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key