Re: [rtl] Floating point computation with RTLINUX

[David Olofson <david.olofson@reologica.se>]

Tue, 16 Nov 1999 rlau@csc.com wrote:
> 1) Do you have to use fixed point arithmetic with RT Linux or can you use
> floating point arithmetic?

You *can* use FP if you like. It just means more overhead in context switches,
and possibly more scheduling jitter.


//David


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