Re: Mersenne: Thoughts on Merced / IA-64

[Anonymous]

At 09:21 AM 6/17/99 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
>>
>> You still need floating point numbers and that's probably better handled
>with
>> FPU hardware.
>
>Do you?

Yes.  You absolutely need FP numbers, and in all cases that I know of, FP
numbers are better handled by FP hardware.

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