On Nov 12, 2013, at 2:06 PM, Matt Thomas <m...@3am-software.com> wrote:
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> On Nov 11, 2013, at 10:08 PM, Michael van Elst <mlel...@serpens.de> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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
