Address calculations are a place where fixed point can still have an advantage -- it's often less latency and fewer ops to step a fixed-point accumulator and sh

Address calculations are a place where fixed point can still have an advantage -- it's often less latency and fewer ops to step a fixed-point accumulator and shift it into an address offset on the integer units than to step a floating point accumulator, convert it to integer, then move that over from the FP/vector units to the integer units.