On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:09:35 -0500
Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Folderol <folderol@email-addr-hidden> 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.
Oh dear. I didn't realise I was so far out of date :(
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