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Foil 45 JGF Proposed FP Execution Modes

From Integration of Scientific and Technical Computing with Enterprise Information Systems: Gateway and IPSE ASC Dayton Ohio Invited Presentation -- October 29 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Language Chip Architecture
2 Modifier x86 PowerPC SPARC
3
4 strictfp Java 1.0 (no double Java 1.0 Java 1.0
5 rounding on underflow) (no fused mac)
6 default i.e. larger exponent range fused mac can Java 1.0
7 no modifier allowed be used
8 associativefp many optimizations allowed on all platforms
9 Current default is essentially strictfp although not always implemented precisely
10 mac is fused hardware multiply-add (a*b+c)
11 strictfp is a little more than 2 times slower than default on INTEL x86 for a vector dot product
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