> Kevin Fisher <kgf at golden.net> is widely believed to have written:
> 
> > > Anyway, the webpage is
> > > <URL:http://www.netwinder.org/~scottb/notes/FP-Notes.html>
> [snip]
> > Wow, thanks Tim!   This certainly is interesting...I wonder how it will
> > affect performance?
> [snip]
> 
> Well, I finally made a linuxARM vm with this library doohickey.
> 
> I does NOT crash the way the 'normal' vm did. Unfortunately, it doesn't
> work worth spit either. After a very long delay the 3.0 image finally
> comes up, with a very obvious problem shown by the mouse being seriously
> distorted. Closer inspection shows various graphic bits being wierd,
> such as the borders of the window titlebars being thick and black. Pop
> up a menu (first thing I hoped to do was run the tinyBenchmarks to see
> if the optimisation was now active) and ... it's all black.
> >From somewhere unknown came an emergency evaluator because Flaot /
> failed and the system couldn't open a pre-debug window properly. Sigh.
> I tried the softfloat library with and without the -O2, with no
> noticable difference in effect. The only way I can make a vm for the NW
> is with no optimisation, and the performance is disgusting. Events seem
> to get lost constantly, etc, etc. Yuck. I give up; I don't use the NW
> for anything much and I don't have a linux iPaq, so why bother? 
> 
> tim
> 


Darn, that's sad news.  Oh well, I can live without the optimizations for now 
anyways (especially with the Genie plugin).  Hopefully someday GCC for ARM 
will be 'fixed', though.   Thanks for trying this out...I was going to try it 
as well whenever I got a spare cycle, but I won't bother now. :)