Mark Brinicombe <mark@causality.com>  wrote:
 > On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 kim@pvv.ntnu.no wrote:
 > > I have this idea for almost maximally fast floating point math.
 > > 32 bit mantissa, and 32 bit exponent, signed int that is.
 >   Whilst this lends itself to good performance on ARM there are potential
 > compat problems with not be IEEE compatible.

mmmmm, I'd love to have some sort of hack that would allow my shark to
decode mp3 in realtime... I don't mind running something that's not 
in-tree...

I beg of you.... PLEASE!  I can't continue to listen to the radio in 
'buffy' and she's far too rough a ride to listen to regular CD's...

:-)