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A benchmark of three different floating point packages for the 6809
A benchmark of three different floating point packages for the 6809
There was no support to switch floating point formats—if you picked the rsdos output format, you got the Microsoft floating point, and for the other output formats, you got IEEE-754 support. Benchmark of three floating point packages for the 6809formatcyclesinstructionsMicrosoft87522124Lennart74651326 IEEE-754 single142042932 IEEE-754 double316136865The new code is the fastest so far. It is assumed that every brand name, slogan, corporate name, symbol, design element, et cetera mentioned in these pages is a protected and/or trademarked entity, the sole property of its owner(s), and acknowledgement of this status is implied.
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