Floating Point on Linux

Hardware FPU
VFP - VectorFloating Point

Software FPE (Floating Point Emulation)
NWFPE - NetWinder Floating Point Emulator

FASTFPE - FAST Floating Point Emulator

Performance:

Test program: fp_bench (fp_bench.tar.gz)

Endianness

• Little-endian

• Big-endian