Pentium bug and CRYPTO

Paul Ste. Marie pstemari at fsp.fsp.com
Wed Nov 23 15:31:31 PST 1994


> Since most version of PGP compiled for Intel platforms will be or the
> MS-DOS or Windows variety then it is very unlikely that even floating
> point instructions will be used - emulations libraries will be used
> instead for floating point.

Actually, the emulation libraries will generally use the FPU if one is
available.  The Windows one runs as a DLL as I recall.






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