> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jud McCranie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 12:25 PM
> To: John R Pierce
> Cc: Mersenne discussion list
> Subject: Re: Mersenne: Thoughts on Merced / IA-64
>
>
> At 09:21 AM 6/17/99 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> >>
> >> You still need floating point numbers and that's probably
> better handled
> >with
> >> FPU hardware.
> >
> >Do you?
>
> Yes. You absolutely need FP numbers, and in all cases that I
> know of, FP
> numbers are better handled by FP hardware.
>
You could go with a NTT instead of a FFT. Thus foregoing any double
precision floats. Going with an NTT would also eliminate any precision
problems...
Of course, NTTs right now are a bit slower than FFTs, but who knows maybe w/
MMX instructions you could get a NTT to perform on par with an FFT...
I need to look into that... hmm...
Jeremy
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