Fortran 300 times faster than C for computing cosine

[Steve Groom]

chuck at trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:
>Does anyone know of an optimizer which will convert calls to the standard
>math routines to their 68881 instruction counterparts?

/usr/lib/inline.  Try "cc -c foo.c /usr/lib/f68881/libm.il".  Better yet,
take a look at the Sun Floating Point Programmer's Guide (in the 4.0
manual set).

-steve

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