[geeks] DaveM: Crays up?

[Dave McGuire]

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 03:32 PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>> And... calculating matrix operations is filled with a = b X c + d,
>> which is one of the reasons that fused "multiply/add" instructions
>> are so common on high-end CPUs.
>
> MAC is also common for DSP work which isn't nescesarying matrix
> oriented, to my understanding.

   Quite correct...2D DSP (processing audio signals with digital 
filters, for example) is chock full of multiply-adds.

        -Dave

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