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Re: GCC beaten by ICC in stupid trig test!

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 05:28:40AM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Agreed in principle, but I think the whole point is that if you're a
> competent floating point programmer, you would not be using
> -ffast-math :-)

Not necessarily; a *really* competent floating point programmer can make
the assessment that the precision required for a particular floating point
task is more than adequately provided by -ffast-math.  Lossy audio coding
is one typical case; there are many others.
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