On Nov 12, 2013, at 2:06 PM, Matt Thomas <m...@3am-software.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 11, 2013, at 10:08 PM, Michael van Elst <mlel...@serpens.de> wrote: > >> The "slowdown" is already enormous due to lack of floating point >> hardware. That's why emulating the FP hardware is a very common >> way to handle this situation, just look at the other platforms. > > The exception handling is much costlier than doing a softfloat call. > It’s also adding kernel bloat. I agree. Another example of bit rot is the analogous MIPS feature -- which is not even close to competitive with softfloat functionally, never mind on performance. paul