13 Nov
2010
13 Nov
'10
2:09 p.m.
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Folderol <folderol(a)ukfsn.org> wrote:
Why not go the whole hog and use a pre-calculated
look-up table for the whole
thing?
there's an awful lot of math for which a modern processor can compute
the answer faster than it can look it up. this is one such example (as
fons noted), but there are many others. this started changing about 8
years ago, and its only gotten more true since then.