GCC beaten by ICC in stupid trig test!

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@integrable-solutions.net
Tue Mar 23 19:58:00 GMT 2004


Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM> writes:

| 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.

Well, lossy audio coding is not the kind of computations I would say
involves serious floating point capabilities :-)
But, I can see what you meant.

-- Gaby



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