Re: AVR floating point speed

From: CBFalconer (cbfalconer_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/28/03 

Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 15:52:01 GMT

CBarn24050 wrote:
>
> Hi if you look on microchips site you can find the times for
> floating point calcs. I know its not an avr but i doubt if there
> is much difference.

Considering the paucity of registers on the PIC (1 eight bit) I
would be extremely surprised if the PIC could ever compete in
speed. This is not a good machine for arithmetic. 

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