Re: Finally a PIC32 with FPU for embedded Lua on MIPS

[Bogdan Marinescu <bogdan.marinescu@...>]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> The new Cortex-M7 from ARM supports double precision FPU as an
> implementation option too:
>
> http://www.bdti.com/InsideDSP/2014/09/25/ARM

Well, one of the key points of Lua 5.3 is that you should not need a
double precision FPU to run it (both because it uses less floating
point and because it is viable to use single-precision floats :-)

Absoultely! I can't wait to get my hands dirty with that :) The addition of bitwise operators is also a huge plus in the context of Lua on MCUs.

Thanks,
Bogdan
 

-- Roberto