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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.


Actually to be fair, we have often found in the past that an impression
that ICC was doing something horrible turned out to be wrong on more
careful examination, so let's make sure we know what we are talking
about here :-)

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