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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Lawrence Stewart <lastewart@swin.edu.au>
Subject: Re: floating point operations
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James Healy <jhealy@swin.edu.au> writes:
> The remaining op is not easily converted to fixed point math, and we're
> wondering what impact a single flop on the receipt of each ACK will
> have. We don't have a strong understanding of the amount of overhead
> involved in executing a flop instead of an int op on modern hardware.

Search the archives before posting.  This precise topic was discussed
here earlier this week.

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