Author: Brian Roland (adsl-19-184-239.jan.bellsouth.net)
Date: 05-31-2004 23:40
These are apps that I use and know to benifit from the FPU.
Studio Son and VTRAX have FPU and no FPU versions.
Photoline has two versions of the app on the disk...one uses FPU and one does not. Needless to say, the FPU version is much faster when opening/saving compressed file formats. Also faster with some of the image processing features. It's hard to say when Photoline is making use of FPU and when not...it does make a difference!
If you run any unix variant...MiNT, Linux. BSD, etc....you'll have a lot less headaches if you install an FPU. Lots of things use it, while lots of things don't. Many times you have a choice at compile time by adjusting your make file. If you are like me, and like to download source, type make, and pray it works...having the FPU installed will made a big difference in how often this approach yields binaries that run ;)
Brian
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