Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Possible Math Problem - Request For Verification
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 01:11:39
Message-Id: 20110625211003.06ee16f2.frank.peters@comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Possible Math Problem - Request For Verification by Mark Knecht
1 On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:22:41 -0700
2 Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
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5 > Like Marc's results I do not see the cabsd failure. This machine is an
6 > Intel i7-980x Extreme running Gentoo 64-bit mostly stable.
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9 Thanks for doing these tests. I appreciate it very much. Since both of you
10 see the same results, my machine must be messed up somewhere and I'll have
11 to do some digging.
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13 Floating point performance seems to have improved dramatically on Linux
14 since this test was released in 1995. The original source code (not
15 my patched version) contains the 1995 test logs from Linux and other
16 machines and the results are terrible. But other machines (like SunOS)
17 aced everything.
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19 Another good test is paranoia:
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21 http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/c_src/paranoia/paranoia.html
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23 Linux used to flop during some portions of this test but now it gets
24 a perfect score.
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26 Frank Peters