dmd 1.053 and 2.037 release
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Fri Dec 11 11:29:48 PST 2009
Don wrote:
> Yeah. Actually the CPU problem is an accepts-invalid bug. It worked on
> my Pentium M, but it shouldn't have.
> The problem is what DMD does to the "uninitialized assignments".
>
> float x;
>
> gets changed into
>
> float x = double.snan;
>
> and is implemented with
> fld float.snan; fstp x;
>
> The FLD is triggering the snan. They should be changed into mov EAX,
> reinterpret_cast<int>(float.snan); mov x, EAX;
Sounds like a good idea.
> There's another reason for doing this. On Pentium 4, x87 NaNs are
> incredibly slow. More than 250 cycles!!! On AMD and on Pentium 4 SSE2,
> they are the same as any other value (about 0.5 cycles). Yet another
> reason to hate the P4. But still, this is such a horrific performance
> killer that we ought to avoid it.
I had no idea that was the case!
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