[Virtualacorn-list] Floating point arithmetic

[ATimbrell at aol.com]

In a message dated 09/10/2008 10:33:23 GMT Daylight Time,  
ralph_valmai at ntlworld.com writes:

>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?
 
VRPC's use the floating point emulator in RISC OS, rather than the
floating point unit built into the host machines CPU. We did
investigate a "soft floating point" podule to provide enhanced FPU
performance - but there is so little RISC OS software that really
makes use of floating point - so it wasn't considered worthwhile.
 
Aaron