Re: Terrible FPU performance

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Date	2011-04-27 15:15 +1000
Subject	Re: Terrible FPU performance
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's an FPU?

Floating Point Unit, the part of your computer's processor that
handles floating-point mathematics. Integer calculations are done in
the main CPU, but the FPU (which these days is part of the same hunk
of silicon, but used to be a separate purchase) gets all the really
hard work farmed off to it.

Gross oversimplification, but hopefully helpful.

Chris Angelico

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Re: Terrible FPU performance Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-27 15:15 +1000

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