Part of the earlier discussions on this topic, the pro-FP side makes the argument that if FP are disabled by default, you need to recompile a ton of the distro

Part of the earlier discussions on this topic, the pro-FP side makes the argument that if FP are disabled by default, you need to recompile a ton of the distro to enable them. If they're enabled by default, and there's a particular library you want to disable them for performance reasons, that's relatively trivial.