POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : DKBTrace 2.12 : Re: DKBTrace 2.12 Server Time
31 Jul 2024 00:26:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: DKBTrace 2.12  
From: John VanSickle
Date: 9 Feb 2008 10:10:06
Message: <47adc24e@news.povray.org>
David Buck wrote:

> The VS C++ 2005 version certainly runs faster.  Back in the Amiga days, 
> we didn't have floating point processors so all floating point 
> calculations were done by a library.

Early on, yes, the FP lib was necessary; but if you didn't have a family 
to support, FP coprocessors (and CPUs with an FP unit) were available as 
well.

Regards,
John


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