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Re: Don't optimize by hand (Was Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included))

To: tromey at redhat dot com
Subject: Re: Don't optimize by hand (Was Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included))
From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:52:18 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at albatross dot co dot nz>,Cedric Berger <cedric at wireless-networks dot com>,Andrew Haley <aph at cambridge dot redhat dot com>, martin dot kahlert at infineon dot com,java-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
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Tom Tromey writes:
 > >>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz> writes:
 > 
 > Bryce> Is there some reason why Math::abs(float) and friends can't
 > Bryce> just be implemented as "__builtin_fabsf()", etc, in libgcj?
 > 
 > Oops... in this particular situation it is very unlikely to make a
 > difference.  And we probably don't really implement strict fp
 > semantics anyway

The last time that I ran any tests we were 100% strict fp perfect.
That's better than the other Java implementation I tried!

Andrew.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Don't optimize by hand.
  - From: David Pettersson
- Re: Don't optimize by hand (Was Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris(patch included))
  - From: Kazuyuki Shudo

References:
- Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included)
  - From: Martin Kahlert
- Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included)
  - From: Cedric Berger
- Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included)
  - From: Martin Kahlert
- Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included)
  - From: Cedric Berger
- Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included)
  - From: Andrew Haley
- Don't optimize by hand (Was Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included))
  - From: Cedric Berger
- Re: Don't optimize by hand (Was Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included))
  - From: Bryce McKinlay
- Re: Don't optimize by hand (Was Re: Lack of fabsf on Solaris (patch included))
  - From: Tom Tromey

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