On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:48:31AM -0700, Jun Sun wrote: > I think this gives a big performance improvement because most processes > don't use FPU during their runs but they all have used_math flag set! Jun, You really ought to prove that first. Many people spend a lot of time optimizing things that aren't important. If it isn't important, than the simplest scheme is the best choice. greg