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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
- Subject: Re: Floating point emulation
- Message-ID: <15900@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 03:37:10 GMT
- References: <1992Dec8.022408.16408@candle.uucp> <181290@mbf.UUCP>
- Sender: news@auspex-gw.auspex.com
- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >Profiling data is collected during clock interrupts. Any code which
- >executes at a higher interrupt priority than the clock will never show up
- >in the profile. This is probably the case for the floating point
- >emulation code.
-
- I would be *quite* surprised if they had to run floating-point emulation
- with the IPL cranked up high, and, unless they *did* have to for some
- reason, would be quite surprised if they *did* do so....
-