Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> Clearly you do not know much about floating-point units in modern processors 
> then. You actually want to do it is software because that is more efficient 
> (see my other post). x87 is pretty much the last architecture to still have 
> microcode ops for more than sqrt.

  You are telling me that calculating trigonometric functions on 64-bit
floating point values in software is faster than using the FPU?

  I'm not sure that would make too much sense. It would mean that they
would *deliberately* make the FPU calculate those functions in a less
efficient way than you could do with the CPU.

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