On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Erik E. Fair wrote:

> At 7:33 -0700 10/11/98, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> 
> >mmmmm, I'd love to have some sort of hack that would allow my shark to
> >decode mp3 in realtime... I don't mind running something that's not
> >in-tree...
> 
> Me, too, but my impression from reading this list was that the problem was
> the arm32 port's interrupt structure, and resulting interrupt response
> latency [...]

Herb's correct; it's the floating point performance.  We proved this with
the June snapshot by replacing libc with the faster-fp version available
on ftp.netbsd.org.

--scott