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To: Scumbria who wrote (94248)2/19/2000 10:22:00 PM
From: dumbmoney  Respond to of 1570913
 
The stack based architecture of x86 FPU is crippling, so it remains to be seen how the floating point performance will stack up against RISC machines.

Intel has added double support to the SSE unit. Freshly compiled code targetted at Willy will not use any x87 instructions.