are global exception flags a resource bottleneck?

[David Hough 754R work <754r@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been thinking about ways of reducing the impact of exception flags
on programs that don't use them - most programs - while not losing any
of the capabilities they provide.

Persons still interested in this may read my ideas at

http://754r.ucbtest.org/proposals/flags/2006-09-17-flags.pdf

The presentation is in terms of changes to the last public 754R draft
of about a year ago.    There are a number of blank pages that act as stubs
to preserve section numbers; the actual content starts on page 13.