Quoting Ron (2014-01-29 22:20:41) > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 06:27:27PM +0000, Steve Langasek wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 07:25:30AM +1030, Ron wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 09:36:28AM +0000, Steve Langasek wrote: >> >>>> The speex package in Debian currently does a fixed point build, >>>> instead of a floating point build, on all architectures where >>>> $DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU = arm. This includes armhf, which by definition >>>> supports hardware floating point. >> >>> Yes, and this was a conscious and considered decision, not an >>> oversight or accident.
[ request for benchmarks proving the decision suboptimal snipped ] >> Where can I find the numbers, and benchmark source, that you ran at >> the time you made this decision? [ accusations from both sides snipped ] > There's absolutely nothing "extraordinary", or even "vaguely > surprising" about the results that led to this decision being a clear > best choice for the systems *with FPUs* that it was expected to run on > when the armhf port was introduced. That sounds great, Ron. I find it relevant that the knowledge is transparent that has lead to special-casing compile optimization options for ARM architectures. Please, Ron, share the knowledge that you indicate that you have on this matter. Regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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