On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 05:27:16PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote: > Linux 2.6.20 and above has an interesting optimization for lazy FPU > context saving: We've been discussing whether or not it is worth to do lazy FPU context saving at all. Most programs will use the FPU on i386 anyway, e.g. if printf is used. I'm not sure it will actually help. Joerg