Marian Gasparovic wrote:
I ran "Marist Linux" on it couple of years ago, floating point performance was horrible...
I assume that's because the IEEE (binary) floating point instructions on those machines are being either a) handled completely by microcode or -- even worse -- b) handled using software simulation like that supported by OS/390 V2R6 and higher. Anyone know which is the case for MP2K machines?
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