Re: EHP.. Any comments on micro Throughput

At 09:28 AM 2/4/00 -500, you wrote:

>From: daveland@...
>
>Nobody commented on the math Throughput benchmarks I did on the PC and a

microcontroller.

> I was thinking that someone would show me that high math throughput is not
>required. I know old time CNC had 8080 CPU's and it did this stuff. I'm sure
>floating point math took 100's of us or Milliseconds on those CPU's. So I

guess

>they used integer math and "picked" some good assumptions for their controls.
>

Charles Moore, who invented the programming language, "Forth", argues that
floating point math cannot be justified in any application where you have
any information about the range of possible decimal point locations, ie;
"scale".

The cost in speed and accuracy is just too high.

Ted