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- Subject: Re: Embedded ARM (arm7) porting status?
- From: Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:39:45 +0000
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 19:36 +0200, Asko Kauppi wrote:
> Though most people would take this as self-evident, please check out
> the LNUM patch to allow faster processing (about 33% but varies
> greatly) on ARM7 platform.
I'm surprised it's such a small advantage: but then most of my ARM
experience comes from machines that have a floating-point instruction
emulator rather than using softfloat, so FP operations are extremely
expensive.
I should try firing your patch up on a RISC OS box and do some timings.
B.
