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by bigbillheck 837 days ago
> EDIT: That's a paper for a software library, not the CPU's internal implementation.

Unless you're seeing something I'm not, it's talking about x87, which hasn't been anything other than 'internal' since they stopped selling the 80486sx.

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Ah you're right.

Anyways I wonder why it's still so slow.

60-120 cycles sure looks like a CORDIC implementation, but perhaps not.