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To: Maxwell who wrote (36511)8/30/1998 11:20:00 AM
From: Steve Porter  Respond to of 1583687
 
Maxwell,

Scumbria is correct in stating:

<<RISC CPU's generally do double precision faster than single precision.>>

When I get to work on Tuesday (I'll be offsite Monday) I'll get out my handy-dandy little PA-RISC programing manual and quote a chunk on FP out of there for you.

Steve