"Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vgivanovic@comcast.net> skribis:
> On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 16:14 -0500, Barry.SCHWARTZ@chemoelectric.org
> wrote:
> 
> > Enough research has gone into writing code for IEEE floating point
> > that I would not try to bypass it without a good reason. It’s there to
> > be your friend.
> 
> Performance is the reason we have hardware FPUs and -ffast-math.

For home video games, maybe. For scientists and engineers I’d say
always use the complete standard arithmetic, because some of the
numerical routines may assume it, and for the ability to duplicate
results.


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