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Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > The cost is pretty high. It means any program no matter if it will use FPU > or not actually touches the FPU unit. On many machines this means a trap > into the kernel which has to initialize the whole FPU and give it to the > application and on several archs on the next context switch you have no way > to find out nothing else in the FPU state was modified, so you have to save > it. Ok, I can see the costs now. Thanks for the heads up. I'll look for another way to fix this. -- Scott Bambrough - Software Engineer REBEL.COM http://www.rebel.com NetWinder http://www.netwinder.org
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