Wake me up when ARM comes up with an FPU that isn’t outperformed by a 486DX.
The thing is that mobile devices don’t need that much floating point. So more mips means faster interpreters..like dalvik!
ARM floating point depends on which implementation you’re getting. There is VFP, but it is pretty lame, but ARM also has NEON, providing low-end SIMD that can work as the FPU. But that’s not to say an ARM implementation even has to use ARM’s FPU solutions. Intel’s XScale is an ARM with an MMX unit.