By: EduardoS (no.delete@this.spam.com), June 29, 2013 9:31 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
anon (anon.delete@this.anon.com) on June 29, 2013 9:15 pm wrote:
> Then why has the market (almost every general purpose CPU from high end smartphones
> to high end servers) overwhelmingly spent effort on FP performance?
Because it is important to win benchmarks? Because it is easier/cheaper than improving any other part of the chip? Ask chip designers, looking from distance designing a FPU that doesn't sucks very badly doesn't look as hard as designing a scheduller that performs exceptioanlly well.
> *That* was my question.
So you formed you question really bad.
> Then why has the market (almost every general purpose CPU from high end smartphones
> to high end servers) overwhelmingly spent effort on FP performance?
Because it is important to win benchmarks? Because it is easier/cheaper than improving any other part of the chip? Ask chip designers, looking from distance designing a FPU that doesn't sucks very badly doesn't look as hard as designing a scheduller that performs exceptioanlly well.
> *That* was my question.
So you formed you question really bad.