Re: hf/sf [Was Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/misc/raspberrypi-userland]

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

On Nov 11, 2013, at 10:08 PM, Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost> 
wrote:

> The "slowdown" is already enormous due to lack of floating point
> hardware. That's why emulating the FP hardware is a very common
> way to handle this situation, just look at the other platforms.

The exception handling is much costlier than doing a softfloat call.
It’s also adding kernel bloat.