std.math performance (SSE vs. real)

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jun 28 17:36:22 PDT 2014


On 6/28/2014 11:16 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> (as opposed to more
> practical applications like engineering, where 6-8 digits of precision
> in the result is generally more than good enough).

Of the final result, sure, but NOT for the intermediate results. It is an utter 
fallacy to conflate required precision of the result with precision of the 
intermediate results.



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