CompuServe Messages

Javier – I'll be corrected in this if I'm wrong, but assuming that your 50MHz '030 had a 50 MHz '882, the slowness of the '040 could be the fact that the built-in floating point unit in the '040 is not as capable as the '882. Therefore, some floating point operations might actually take longer using the '040 fp unit than the equivalent operations on the '882, as I believe some of the floating point features of the '882 simply aren't there in the '040 and need to be done via software. If this _is_ the case, I'm not sure if anything can be done about it unless Motorola comes out with a seperate fp chip for the 040. Hope this helps … – via Whap!