Subject: Re: possible arm32 fp tuning project.
To: Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 10/12/1998 08:50:44
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Lennart Augustsson wrote:

: > The Shark can comfortably do this with a fixed-point based player;
: > someone for the Acorn RiscOS machines wrote such a thing. 

: Yes, of course you can do it with fixed point, but I've not seen
: the source for such a player.  And I don't have the time to
: (re)write one.

Still, you `just aren't' going to get reasonable soft float emulation for
playing MP3s.  It has been tried, and we *can* (and should!) get better
softfloat for ARM, but what's available is only a fraction faster....

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)