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"Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vgivanovic@×××××××.net> skribis: |
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> On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 16:14 -0500, Barry.SCHWARTZ@×××××××××××××.org |
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> wrote: |
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> > Enough research has gone into writing code for IEEE floating point |
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> > that I would not try to bypass it without a good reason. It’s there to |
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> > be your friend. |
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> Performance is the reason we have hardware FPUs and -ffast-math. |
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For home video games, maybe. For scientists and engineers I’d say |
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always use the complete standard arithmetic, because some of the |
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numerical routines may assume it, and for the ability to duplicate |
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results. |
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Barry.SCHWARTZ at chemoelectric.org http://chemoelectric.org |
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Free stuff / Senpagaj varoj: http://crudfactory.com (PDF) |
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'Democracies don't war; democracies are peaceful countries.' - Bush |
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(http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/12/20051219-2.html) |
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