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Re: Is an FPU really important?
« on: May 14, 2008, 02:13:16 PM »
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SamOS39 wrote:
I what situations would your amiga require/benefit from having an FPU?

And who wold buy an 030 turbo board which didnt have an FPU (or FPU option)?

... just a bit of market research ..  ;-)

cheers

Sam.


It's generally 'multimedia' applications that use floating point operations.  3d calculations and image manipulation tend to be heavy in floating point.  3d games, raytracers, film compositing, image manipulation... anything of that sort.

Jarrod

- Edit - "Games" -> "3d games"