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Re: abs()

• Posted by Alexander Toresson <toressonodakra at swipnet.se> Oct 27, 2004
• 1648 views

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> those functions below should work fine on sequences. I have a real old
> computer here
> (486), so small variances in execution time are noticeable. 
> 
> so, i found, again i stress ONLY on this particular PC which is irregular at
> the best
> of times, the most efficient all purpose algorithm to be:
> }}}
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> function abs(object a)
> 	if sequence(a) then return sqrt(a*a)
> 	elsif (a < 0) then return -a end if
> 	return a
> end function
> 
> which was NOT what i expected

And neither do I. Aren't 486's supposed to have slow fpu's?
Anyway, is it an sx or dx?

Regards, Alexander Toresson

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