Re: [Patch] new (almost rewritten) version of the ARM assembly ieee754lib

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>
>
> > Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >
> >
> > > After many months of part time hacking on the ARM assembly for floating
> > > point operations, I'm about to lose interest so it's time I finally submit
> > > the improvements I've done so far and move on to another distraction.
> > >
> > > Nevertheless, the improvements in performance should be significant.  See
> > > for example this non-exhaustive instruction count comparison between the old
> > > (current) and the new (with my patch) version of the lib which should give a
> > > rough idea of the speed increase:
> >
> > Cool!  What testing have you done?  Have you run any IEEE conformance tests?
>
>
> Yes, a couple of them like paranoia, plus some of my usual test tools I 
> used when writing the original code.

That seems like a pretty reasonable set of tests.

Thanks,

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