those opening "wtf" sequences might be there as filler space; harmless instructions with a known pattern where you can come back later and insert different instructions. Most people use NOPs for that but perhaps they wanted a different signature or needed 3 separate, differentiated patch points at entry. Or maybe they wanted to help sell more 8087 chips.
Anybody recall if there was a notable performance difference between Borland's FP emulation lib and M$, then? My habit at the time was to religiously avoid all floats, to the point of shipping a home made arbitrary precision BCD math library. It was no faster than anything else but it gave the same results for the same inputs, every time on every machine.
Anybody recall if there was a notable performance difference between Borland's FP emulation lib and M$, then? My habit at the time was to religiously avoid all floats, to the point of shipping a home made arbitrary precision BCD math library. It was no faster than anything else but it gave the same results for the same inputs, every time on every machine.