[em3rgent0rdr]

Looking at the complexity and area of hardware floating point, I often wonder why we don't see more unified combined integer+floating point units, like done in the R4200 [1], which reused most of the integer datapath while just adding a smaller extra smaller 12-bit datapath for the exponent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R4200

[bobmcnamara]

The integer pipeline is often needed for address calculation near the same time as the floating point pipeline.

The R4200 FPU performance suffered for this reason.