Re: SUMMARY: pentium optimized debian discussion
Chris Lawrence <quango@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> It might help somewhat with people who don't have FPUs (fairly common
> on m68k and perhaps other architectures... 386/SX and others?),
> when the kernel FPU emulator gets straightened out. A m68k-nofpu
> subarchitecture (with a few things like glibc and FPU-intensive
> apps in it) would probably improve performance on non-FPU machines
> dramatically (avoiding the unimplemented FPU instruction traps into
> kernel space).
This might be a bit premature -- or have the kernel and glibc folks
given up on trying to arrange it so that the fpu wouldn't have to be
initialized until it's needed?
--
Raul
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