[Virtualacorn-list] Floating point arithmetic

[ralph_valmai at ntlworld.com]

Lack of hardware for floating point arithmetic has been a problem for 
most RISC OS machines for a long time. So can I ask the following 
questions?

Does VA use the Acorn floating point emulator or does it use the host 
machine's fp unit?

If it is the floating point emulator that is used, would it be 
possible to change this to use the hardware fp system of the host?

And if the answer to the second question is 'yes', would a significant 
improvement in the performance of fp arithmetic operations result? By 
the word significant I mean enhancing the performance of VA 
significantly compared with native machines.

There are other questions that could be asked such as 'If the answers 
to the last two questions are both yes, is the user-base sufficiently 
large and willing to spend the money to make the project viable?', but 
I will not press that.

Ralph


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Ralph & Valmai Stevens
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