rs4u#@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Richard Siegel) (05/05/87)
I am about to start writing code to make it possible to call
MS Fortran's floating-point math routines from Lightspeed Pascal
(or any other, for thatmatter). I'm doing this because MS Fortran's
math is about a factor of 10 faster than SANE is (on a regular Mac).
Before I start coding, I thought I'd ask the net to see if anyone's
done this. Has anyone? If I get this working, I'll publish the
results (Pascal and/or C interfaces, most likely), but I
do not want to reinvent the wheel.
--Rich
Richard M. Siegel
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Disclaimer? I don't even KNOW 'er!wmcb@ecsvax.UUCP (05/06/87)
In article <AUbWBNy00UhTyGo0BW@andrew.cmu.edu> rs4u#@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Richard Siegel) writes: > >I am about to start writing code to make it possible to call >MS Fortran's floating-point math routines from Lightspeed Pascal >(or any other, for thatmatter). I'm doing this because MS Fortran's >math is about a factor of 10 faster than SANE is (on a regular Mac). > true, but what about the accuracy of the routines - does anyone know what tradeoff's were made to get the speed ? I'd want to know that first - especially in the transcendetal routines, etc. Also, can the environment be altered and monitored as in SANE ? I'd really be interested in the answers to these (there are several LSP programs I have the would love to be an order of magnitude faster!!) Any kind soul that would post and/or email the answers would have my eternal (or at least until Friday) gratitude... Bill --------------------------- B. Bauldry wmcb@ecsvax.UUCP or whatever Dept of Math Sci Appalachian State U Boone, NC 28608 ---------------------------