Re: [LAU] klang

From: Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Aug 02 2012 - 06:18:19 EEST

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> Any pointers to why floating point in the kernel is such a no-no?
> I could understand it when floating point happened in co-processors.
>

FPU register state is expensive to save+restore. no point in doing it all
the time when you hardly ever need to.

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