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by astrange 1169 days ago
Huh, maybe I was thinking of "you can use floating point in the kernel".

That doesn't work in every kernel because they don't want to bother saving/restoring the extra registers.

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To be entirely honest I'm not sure why the kernel doesn't use better routines here, I think on ARM at least it saves the entire NEON state on context switch…