In article <3acf994e$1@news.povray.org>, "Thorsten Froehlich" 
<tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

> Maybe (I do not know about the SH) the FPU only supports
> single-precision floating point numbers in hardware?  If the compiler is
> then forced to generate code for it you would get such a slowdown...

    I looked for specifications on it, and couldn't find any in-depth 
information, but I did see a reference to a 64-bit floating point 
unit...I interpreted that as a unit that handles 64-bit floats, though 
it could be a vector unit handling 2 32-bit floats, or something similar.
    If it does double-precision through software, that would slow it 
down a lot...nothing to do with it being a RISC processor, though.

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