Floating point emulation

[Peter Barada]

>I haven't used floats in years (decades? hmm) so don't quote
>me on that...
>(Incidently, if you are compiling with -msoft-float, I don't
>expect that using doubles will "increase performance", as
>you'll double the amount of work the processor has to do...)

It all depends on the hardware implementation of the FPU.  If the FPU
can only operate in double precision, then to properly model single
precision operations requires rounding instructions to be added after
every operation to force the final result to appear as if it was
calculated in single precision.  This can indeed slow it down.

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