> A better solution is to write it as softfloat library for the gcc. (can not a 
> existing softfloat library from a other machine be compiled/ported to our 
> system ?)

Hi,

Yep, the FP library idea is a nice one. We're currently evaluating a couple
of these to use in conjunction with the gcc soft float option. Early results
have shown a 3-6 times speed increase over using the FPE under  RiscBSD.

Maybe you will all be able to see something like this in action at Wakefield.

It seems that, using a lkibrary, the AtrongARM runs FP at somewhere around the same
speed as an ARM700 with FPA11.

> Next idea: If a DSP would be present in the system, would this improve the FP 
> performance if the floatingpoint requests from a (special) softfloat library
> would be calculated by the DSP ?
> I'm not shure whether the encoding/transmitting/decoding overhead for this 
> mechanism still keeps the speed improvement of the DSP. (Native DSP soft is 
> regions faster).
> (I ask this not without a reason ;)


> Ciao, Peter

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	Yours aye,

	Neil

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