On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:31:36AM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:04:23AM -0700, Jun Sun wrote: > > > Currently I am leaning towards 2) or 3). What is your opinion? > > (1) and (2) are how other archs like Alpha and Itanium deal with > this. I think (3) is likely to be painful to debug The good news is that I have already got it implemented and it survived fairly stressful FPU tests. :-) > and maintain and > won't win much. So I'd suggest (2). > Yes, 3) is a little harder to maitain. I don't have much clue as how much it will improve the performance in reality. Presumably if there is only one FPU intensive process in the system, it can improve a little bit. Thanks for the feedback. Jun
