On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Fabien told me that splay works at about 10% cpu on a StrongARM, and I > have some propritary routines from ARM LTD that use about 5%. > > The trick is to us only integer math, then ARM runs at a good clip.
Yup, indeed. I presume xmms does indeed use floating-point maths in its decoding. Would a quick antidote to be to compile with the soft- float library, or are the ramifications going to be too horrible? For instance, if no nonintegral arguments are passed about between any external libraries (compiled without soft-float, presumably) and xmms, would any problems ensue? c.
