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Re: What is acceptable for -ffast-math? (Was: associative law in combine)
- To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>
- Subject: Re: What is acceptable for -ffast-math? (Was: associative law in combine)
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: 31 Jul 2001 11:04:14 +0200
- Cc: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at codesourcery dot com>, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>, <moshier at moshier dot ne dot mediaone dot net>, <tprince at computer dot org>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107301823400.19511-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
| > As von Neumann said once
| >
| > Numerical computation is too serious to be left to the computer
| > scientist.
|
| Yeah. And as Linus once said: most numerical problems today in pure CPU
| cycles are actually 3D games.
Then Linus need to be educated about numerical problems.
| Your arguments about "numerical computation" are just silly, as you don't
| seem to realize that there are tons of problems where your theoretical
| issues are nothing more than noise.
Not just because you claim they are silly makes them so.
More to the point, you don't seem to realize that there are tons of
problems where your theoretical issues of speed are nothing more than
noise.
-- Gaby