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Originally Posted by meynaf
The FPU isn't something that offloads the CPU for its routine tasks, it's something that handles floating-point operations in hardware.
So the amount of performance boost hugely depends on how much the target program relies on them. In addition, the program must explicitly use them and coders are often reluctant in doing so because you either have two versions of the same code (one with and one without), or a program that will crash on non-fpu machines.
For Ibrowse i'd bet it's javascript that takes most of the toll and that merely loading a page and displaying it, even with images, remains mostly unaffected.
Thus if it's about page loading, better drop the idea of an fpu. A faster cpu would have a much greater impact.
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I always disable javascript when coming here
Wouldn't an FPU help with faster jpeg decoding?