good FPU needed on client?

[Samuel Hocevar]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2001, Christophe Massiot wrote:

> >    The only piece of code to use floating point instructions is located
> >in the AC3 decoder.
> 
> Errr, ever heard of MPEG audio decoder sam ? :-)

   Uuuh, sorry... Was a bit focused on the DVD format. Not that DVDs
don't have audio MPEG either, but... ah, well. ok. O:-)

> >AC3 decoding roughly eats roughly ten times less CPU
> >than video MPEG2 decoding, so you're pretty safe with this.
> 
> It depends on how bad your FPU is. On iPAQ it's basically unusable.

   Got any figures? Is it like, 10 times slower? Worse?

-- 
Sam.