Quote Originally Posted by Chumbucket843 View Post
superpi is not synthetic. people just use that word to cover up bad performance.

if you knew a thing or two about the algorithms used you might not consider them synthetic. if it is then essentially all that work fourier did was useless for science and computation.
Are there a lot of real world modern consumer software that still use x87 code? I can't think of any off the top of my head, but maybe i've missed a niche that you could pigeon hole my argument into.