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Aucbvax.4603 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Thu Oct 22 11:04:31 1981 floating-point >From decvax!duke!unc!smb@Berkeley Thu Oct 22 10:30:22 1981 In-real-life: Steven M. Bellovin

Someone here (lrn) wrote an awk processor that replaced floating-point instructions with direct calls to the subroutine library. Though somewhat longer (I think), programs so compiled execute much faster.

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