NetBSD 10.x Kernel Math_emulation

Re:NetBSD 10.x Kernel Math_emulation by SudoSuccubus on Sunday May 11, 2025 @10:00PM (#43958971)

This is the most worthless thing in the world. Why would anybody give a rat's fucking ass about a third? Not even a third rate like a 10th rate. Fucking operating system having math support. Oh wow! Congratulations! Now you can go ahead and support computers from 1985 now

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Re:NetBSD 10.x Kernel Math_emulation by 2000UltraDeluxe on Monday May 12, 2025 @12:22AM (#43959631)

It's a hobbyist project. It doesn't need any "worth" apart from the joy the author got from it.

Kudos to the author for doing this _and_ sharing it with the world.

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Re:NetBSD 10.x Kernel Math_emulation by anthk on Monday May 12, 2025 @08:08AM (#43962072)

This is about software emulated FP. OFC NetBSD used the FP module in CPU's since long ago.

Also, FP is not math, it's just a kind of math. And even Forth users will use a fixed point before going into float. With 32 bits, they will just scale the point and call it a day.

And seasoned Forth users will just use quotient arithmetic and output fractional parts as two items in the stack.

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