Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Nov 10 2009 - 17:45:22 EST


On 11/10/2009 02:34 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 02:29:33PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> I don't believe we were talking about ARM.
>
> True. I do get the impression the ARM has higher trap overhead than x86.

Also, the x87 FPU is a very clunky beast that's slow to emulate (unlike
SSE).

-hpa

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