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RE: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
September 9, 2001 10:56
Subject:
RE: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)
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5.1.0.14.2.20010909135526.01b9dd50@pop.sidhe.org
At 01:54 PM 9/9/2001 -0700, Wizard wrote:
>Just curious, would it be practical to design-in a boolean-specific
>register/set of registers? There are many processors (PICC, 8051, etc.)
>which would likely be better able utilize their own optimizations if this
>were the case ( bitset, testbit, high, low, etc.). It could be done without
>the register(s), but implementation would be much more straight-forward.

Could you go into more detail? I'm not sure what you're getting at here, 
but it sounds potentially interesting.

					Dan

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