Fortran computes cosine 300 times faster than C (on Sun3)

Chris Torek chris at mimsy.UUCP
Sat Mar 11 02:54:42 AEST 1989


In article <16279 at mimsy.UUCP> I substituted
>	TMP = 4.0 * COS(2.5)

for

>>	tmp=cos(2.5)*cos(2.5)*cos(2.5)*cos(2.5);

Oops.  (What, you mean $4x \ne x^4$? :-) )
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