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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!199.94.215.18!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD slower than Linux ? Date: 4 Feb 1997 00:20:59 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5d5vdb$emg@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <dkleinh.854654600@isotope.ps.uci.edu> <5crh6q$44j@synge.maths.tcd.ie> <87iv4ezj3c.fsf@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au> <5cta6n$eio@helena.mt.net> <5d4s48$gru@qnx.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35033 doug@qnx.com (Doug Santry) wrote: > >Umm, no. You can't emulate hardware floating point calls, which is what > > Why not? If no FPU is present, then the instructions will cause a trap > which can be caught. You know which instruction caused the trap, so just > emulate it in software. But that's way slower. I think the basic tradeoff was that even nroff wouldn't run anymore, which is needed to format the manuals. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)