Re: Faster depend written in Perl

Kai Henningsen (msmith@quix.robins.af.mil)
Fri, 26 Jul 1996 16:00:36 -0400 (EDT)


> > I assume this patch is for machines with no math unit only,
> > because on a machines with coprocessor, floating point arithmetic
> > runs faster than integer.
>
> Doesn't perl do all math as floating point too though?

Hmm, I'm not sure. It appears I was wrong anyway, according to Albert
the Alpha is unique in this respect, so disregard my blabbing. :)

Melvin