Compile-time optimization of mathfn(CST) ?

Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
Fri Mar 26 12:24:00 GMT 2004


 > From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm@polyomino.org.uk>
 > 
 > [...] or precise CPU stepping seems a bad idea.  (The dependence on
 > the CPU version, where the host library uses CPU instructions for
 > the operation but not all CPUs necessarily produce bitwise
 > identical results, would in particular be liable to produce
 > nonreproducibility for distcc compiles etc. - I don't think people
 > using compile farms necessarily use physically identical processors
 > on all machines.)

Ok I buy this one, GCC should be deterministic on compile farms.

So I await GMP.  Sigh.

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Kaveh R. Ghazi			ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu



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