On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:15:46 +0000, Steve Harris wrote > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 04:46:10 +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > Is this processor specific? I used to get it loads on my PII desktop, but I > > haven't noticed it as much my PIII machine (might just be because it's twice > > the speed). > > It happens on all IEEE machines, though on some (eg. the PS2's vector > units) you can turn it off. > > If your machine is memory bound then you wont notice as much. > > > Cheers for the info guys, I haven't come across this before (day job=games > > programming) > > No, see above ;)
That, and you don't tend to do dsp with them (although you might ;))
