13 Mar
2008
13 Mar
'08
12:36 p.m.
On Mar 13, 2008, at 5:12 , Ketil Malde wrote:
Perhaps now everybody uses SSE to do math, but earlier Intel FPU architectures did floating point with 80-bit registers, so the accuracy of the result could depend on whether an intermediate result was flushed to memory (by a context switch).
Double operations in IO, anyone? :/ -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH