[Mono-bugs] [Bug 76559][Wis] New - Software floating point emulation in the JIT

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Changed by alp at atoker.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=76559

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+Bug#: 76559
+Product: Mono: Runtime
+Version: 1.1
+OS: All
+OS Details: 
+Status: NEW   
+Resolution: 
+Severity: 
+Priority: Wishlist
+Component: JIT
+AssignedTo: lupus at ximian.com                            
+ReportedBy: alp at atoker.com               
+QAContact: mono-bugs at ximian.com
+TargetMilestone: ---
+URL: 
+Cc: 
+Summary: Software floating point emulation in the JIT
+
+The Nokia 770 hardware doesn't have a VFP coprocessor, so Mono currently
+offloads floating point operations to the FPA. A nice optimisation would be
+to instead do this in the JIT, a method which can reportedly speed things
+up a fair bit.