On Dec 16 2006 15:13, Lee Revell wrote:
>On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 18:02 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>
>> They use floating point in (Windows) kernelspace? Oh my.
>
>Yes, definitely.
Explains why Windows is so slow ;-) [FPU restore and stuff...]
On that matter, when does the Linux kernel do proper FPU handling? At context
switches? If so, would not that make a kthread fpu-capable?
>For example lots of Windows sound drivers do AC3 decoding in kernelspace.
>Of course the vendors usually lie and say it's done in hardware...
They don't need to lie, the user buys it anyway...
-`J'
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