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Foil 15 Issue: Floating-point

From Activities of the Java Grande Forum Numerics Working Group Java Grande Meeting with Sun Microsystems Menlo Park -- March 11 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox
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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