On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:20:47 +0100, Markus Becker wrote:
>Ron Parker wrote:
>
>Comments a little bit from back top front:
>>(This data is for
>> the 386.  Other processors vary, of course.  
>
>And as such it is of no value. Who has a 386?
>
>I know something like FMUL taking (if the pipelines are full) arount
>1/3 clock. Double floating points are indeed a lot faster than integers.

But try getting any information on instruction timings from Intel these
days.  I checked both the PII and PIII reference manuals and they've dropped
that sort of information.

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