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December 6 98
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
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by
Ronald Boisvert and Roldan Pozo (NIST)
Requirements ...
good performance on most processors
high performance sometimes
exact reproducibility sometimes
access to IEEE features
Problems ...
80-bit registers on x86 ? 2-10x slower
use of fused multiply-add denied
optimizations, e.g. associativity, denied
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