GCC beaten by ICC in stupid trig test!

[Toon Moene]

Roger Sayle wrote:

 > Toon does numerical weather
> forecasting, and he seems happy with -ffast-math.

Indeed, and perhaps the incongruous rambling on "erroneous floating 
point approximations" is entirely the fault of the group that uses (and 
by any theoretical analysis is allowed to use) -ffast-math (or whatever 
the option might be called on a compiler from one of our competitors.

For me, it's very simple: If -ffast-math leads to answers that are less 
accurate (in the verification-against-observation-sense) or unphysical 
(against theoretical limit analysis), then I'll inspect my Fortran code 
and repair the formulation (either a single expression or the layout of 
loop code) that is responsible for the mayhem.

Under no circumstances I will give up using -ffast-math.

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