Re: Trivial patch reducing fp mults in pango-cairo

[Eero Tamminen <ext-eero tamminen nokia com>]

Hi,

ext Daniel Amelang wrote:
> > Right, but that was not compared to softfloat, was it?
>
> No. And yes :). Before I got my 770, I tested my non-FP speedup code
> on a x86 software stack I had compiled with softfloat from the bottom
> up (yes, I made my own libfloat with softfloat compiled for x86 and
> GCC compiler FP compiler symbols). So, yes, I saw equalivalent speed
> gains (greater, even) when compiled for softfloat, but it was on x86,
> so I really can't say that they behavior will be the same on ARM.
> Either way, I don't think we can depend on the whole 770 stack going
> to softfloat (the whole system has to go usually, due to libc, libm
> needing to match), but only the Nokia guys know that.

With EABI supported by the Maemo toolchain, soft- and hard-float can be
mixed.  See:
	http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort


	- Eero