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Huh, maybe I was thinking of "you can use floating point in the kernel". That doesn't work in every kernel because they don't want to bother saving/restoring t
by astrange 4y ago
Huh, maybe I was thinking of "you can use floating point in the kernel".
That doesn't work in every kernel because they don't want to bother saving/restoring the extra registers.
- saagarjha 4y agoTo be entirely honest I'm not sure why the kernel doesn't use better routines here, I think on ARM at least it saves the entire NEON state on context switch…