[haiku-commits] Re: haiku: hrev44613 - src/system/kernel/vm

  • From: Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:09:07 +0200

Am 04.09.2012 22:51, schrieb Rene Gollent:
On 2012-09-04 3:45 pm, Clemens wrote:
whats the reason for that?
I'd guess to avoid the possibility of floating point exceptions.

Not just that. The floating point registers are only used (and stored on a thread switch) on demand. So there is also a tiny benefit of not using them when you don't have to :-)

Bye,
   Axel.


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