[Mono-list] Math precision.

[Bob Smith]

I was thinking that might be the case. I'll P/Invoke them then.
Thanks.

On 19 Jul 2001 14:25:19 -0400, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> On 19 Jul 2001, Bob Smith wrote:
> > > I've been working on the System.Math class, trying to implement
> > > everything in C# without useing P/Invoke. I've been fairly successfull
> > > at implementing the trig functions like sin/cos,
> 
> 	Your implementation, although interesting is never going to be as
> quick as the native versions of these functions built into modern
> processors. A 'sin' is a handful of cycles and can be interleaved with
> other floating point ops [ ok so not via PInvoke it can't :-], it would be
> hundreds of times more efficient to just invoke the C routine which should
> go to the co-proc.
> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> 		Michael.
> 
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