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To: Time Traveler who wrote (34796)	7/19/1998 11:34:00 AM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572702

TT: <<The website you posted shows P-II's FPU being twice as fast as K6-2 in addition/subtraction.>> For addition and subtraction you want to use integer unit instead of FPU. Integer is much faster than FPU. <<As far as any processors doing a precision square root function in 10 clock cycles, you are very gullible if you do believe that.>> I have seen a few published results with similar conclusion. It is the ability to make division and square root faster is what make the K6-2 outperform the PII in 3D geometry transformation. <<P-II still has a pipelined FPU.>> The advantage of pipeline FPU has been negated by SIMD FPU. SIMD outperforms pipeline FPU. Maxwell