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Re: GCC Benchmarks (coybench), AMD64 and i686, 14 August 2004


Joe Buck wrote:

icc's good performance on Kahan's Paranoia benchmark is surprising given
that it makes obviously unsafe floating point transformations; a
reasonable conclusion is that its developers were asked for both a good
Paranoia score and good floating point performance, and they cut corners,
but took care not to break Paranoia.

Such cynicism! :-) :-) :-)



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