On Thursday, February 09, 2012 12:38:04 PM Ben Jackson did opine: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:23:47AM +0200, andy pugh wrote: > > It is servo-thread only as it uses floating-point. I am not entirely > > sure why. > > Aha, that's why I added the laser-thread in my HAL: A base-period > thread with FP allowed. On a modern CPU it's no big deal.
I wonder if that is a hangover from when most computers needed a floating point chip installed? Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. -- Lazarus Long ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
