noble@icsia3.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Noble) (03/08/91)
Howdy I am looking for someone who has fairly extensive knowledge about the implementation of floating point libraries under Microsoft C for DOS machines. The question: Is it possible to use the basic operations (+,-,*,/) without referencing startup code. Alternatively: Can the library be rewritten in such a way as to do this. I am writing an addin for Lotus 1-2-3. Because the startup code is the property of the spread- sheet, it is not available at link time - making use of the Microsoft library impossible (I think). Unfortunately, the library Lotus provides implements these operations using 1-2-3's engine, as a result the operations run an order of magnitude slower (80 micro sec vs 8). Speed is absolutely critical. Please reply to noble@tenet.Berkeley.EDU, as I rarely read the ibm and msdos groups. Thanx Brian Noble noble@tenet.Berkeley.EDU "The road to unsafe optimization is paved with fast intentions"