Re: SUMMARY: pentium optimized debian discussion
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Chris Lawrence 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).
I tested this on intel, a 486 with the FPU disabled via a kernel flag. Gcc
with the emulator enabled did not produce a measurable speed increase.
Jason
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