[cairo] Flag for FP-challenged platforms

Damon Chaplin damon at karuna.uklinux.net
Thu Nov 30 04:13:18 PST 2006


On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 17:03 -0800, Daniel Amelang wrote:
> I've recently developed some optimizations in cairo that speed up
> platforms w/out an FPU, but slow down those that do. Carl has also
> mentioned being in this situation, and so I'm proposing a new
> configure option and flag. How do you all feel about the following
> proposed names?
> 
> --avoid-floating-point and AVOID_FLOATING_POINT
> --avoid-floats and AVOID_FLOATS
> --avoid-float and AVOID_FLOAT
> --avoid-float-operations and AVOID_FLOAT_OPERATIONS

I'd go for --optimize-for-no-fpu

Then some random developer like me might understand what its for.

Damon




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