Subject: Re: Floating point in the kernel
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/18/1998 19:30:02
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 16:46:12 -0700 
 Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

 > It might be the right thing to do from a standards perspective, and
 > may be worth doing anyway, but (wearing a research hat) the bottom
 > line I see is, it just doesnt work very well for applications like
 > real-time display of compressed video, or audio, or (I'd imagine)
 > software modems.

And what is your evidence?

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