std.math performance (SSE vs. real)

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jun 27 23:16:52 PDT 2014


On 6/27/2014 10:18 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/27/2014 4:10 AM, John Colvin wrote:
>> *The number of algorithms that are both numerically stable/correct and benefit
>> significantly from > 64bit doubles is very small.
>
> To be blunt, baloney. I ran into these problems ALL THE TIME when doing
> professional numerical work.
>

Sorry for being so abrupt. FP is important to me - it's not just about 
performance, it's also about accuracy.


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