[Pixman] [cairo] Floating point API in Pixman

[Koen Kooi]

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On 12-08-10 12:24, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> Andrea Canciani <ranma42 at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> If we can't assume that we have a (fast) FPU, 
> 
> There is a fairly common misconception that ARM CPUs never have
> hardware floating point; that may be part of why some people are
> worried.
> 
> However, until we hear from someone who can credibly claim that he is
> going to ship pixman to a non-trivial number of people on non-FPU
> hardware, I think assuming hardware floating point is fine.

At TI we're still selling millions of ARM9 based SoCs without an FPU on
the arm side. A fair percentage will end up running linux with a GUI.
The market for cheap ARM chips is huge, not everyone wants to pay $30 or
more for the latest A8/A9/eagle.

regards,

Koen
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