[cairo] Patches for speeding up _cairo_fixed_from_double
Jim Gettys
jg at laptop.org
Wed Nov 8 11:43:22 PST 2006
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 16:13 -0800, Carl Worth wrote:
>
> Does anybody have a good reason that cairo should work with the FPU in
> single-precision mode?
>
> Until someone speaks up there, I suggest we eliminate the current
> comment and replace it with a sentence in the manual and in NEWS (for
> sake of the next release) officially making single-precision mode
> unsupported.
I speak up.
On some/many machines, single precision is much faster than double
precision (e.g. the Geode).
Regards,
- Jim
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Jim Gettys
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