[maemo-developers] Performance of floating point instructions

[From: Alberto Mardegan]

Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote:
> You can also put the CPU to a "fast floats" mode, see hd_fpu_set_mode()
> in
> http://maemo.gitorious.org/fremantle-hildon-desktop/hildon-desktop/blobs/master/src/main.c
> 
> N900 has support for NEON instructions also.

This sounds interesting!

Is there any performance penalty if this switch is done often?

Ciao,
   Alberto

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