From: 100.141999@germanynet.de (Dirk Busse) Subject: Faster Amiga Math Libraries Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 Reply-To: 100.141999@germanynet.de (Dirk Busse) PRODUCT NAME Aminet:util/libs/FMath406.lha Aminet:util/libs/HSMathLibs_060.lha BRIEF DESCRIPTION Fast replacement for the Math Libraries. AUTHOR/COMPANY INFORMATION FastMath: Martin Berndt HSMathLibs: Matthias Henze LIST PRICE Both are Shareware! FastMath: 30,-DM or US$ 20 HSMathLibs: 10,-DM or US$ 7 or UK£ 5 SPECIAL HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS AMIGA with 68040 or 68060 Prozessor (or 6888x [only FastMath]) MACHINE USED FOR TESTING Amiga 2000 with DKB WildFire060 AmigaDOS 3.1 COMPARISION During all Tests the Oxyron-Patcher V3.12 was active. Testprog |original|FastMath040|HSMathLibs060 |MathLibs| V40.6 | V44.2 -------------------------+--------+-----------+------------- from FastMath-Archive: | | | MathTransTest | 57.09 | 26.45 | 11.55 MathSingTransTest | 37.95 | 23.61 | 10.79 MathDoubTransTest | 48.75 | 22.57 | 15.37 from HSMathLibs-Archive: | | | with 250000 iterations: | | | mathtransTest | 153.24 | 64.66 | 29.98 mathieeesingtransTest | 101.1 | 59.7 | 28.28 mathieeedoubtransTest | 110.96 | 60.24 | 30.82 with 2500000 iterations:| | | mathieeedoubasTest | 60.04 | 59.08 | 57.18 OxyPatcher shows: | | | ersetzte Befehle | 30 | 0 | 0 verschiedene Befehle | 27 | 0 | 0 BUGS I didn't find any bug. CONCLUSIONS A long time ago I registered the FastMath Libraries from Martin Berndt. I asked him for creating a 68060-Version of the libs. But I didn't get an answer :-( And now someone else did his job. The new math libs from Matthias Henze are twice fast as the math libs from Martin Berndt. And they are only a third expensive than the libs from Martin Berndt. Matthias, thank you for your good work. Author of this Review: Dirk Busse Kropsburgstraße 8 D-67141 Neuhofen Germany Fax: +49 6236 415036 EMail: 100.141999@germanynet.de