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Foil 10 Issue: Floating-point

From Summary of Report of the Java Grande Forum Numerics Working Group SC98 Orlando Java Grande Panel -- November 13 98. by Ronald Boisvert and Roldan Pozo (NIST)
1 Requirements ...
  • good performance on most processors
  • high performance sometimes
  • exact reproducibility sometimes
  • access to IEEE features
2 Problems ...
  • 80-bit registers on x86 ? 2-10x slower
  • use of fused multiply-add denied
  • optimizations, e.g. associativity, denied
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