Re: klang

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On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Any pointers to why floating point in the kernel is such a no-no?
I could understand it when floating point happened in co-processors.

FPU register state is expensive to save+restore. no point in doing it all the time when you hardly ever need to.
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