From: "Bruce Ellis" <brucee@chunder.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] floating point
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:32:36 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00d601c3f1d1$44aa3490$8201a8c0@cc77109e> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20040213110626.00ab8d40@pop.monitorbm.co.nz>
excellent - tho not a benchmark it is a very rigorous program that
i've used before in compiler development. please send.
brucee
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Simmons" <andrew.simmons@monitorbm.co.nz>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: [9fans] floating point
> > Shortish, sensible, benchmarks would be a appreciated.
>
> Not exactly a benchmark, and it may be neither short nor sensible, but I
> bodged up a version of Kahan's Paranoia to run under Plan 9 a while back.
> The summary was as follows:
>
> No failures, defects nor flaws have been discovered.
> Rounding appears to conform to the proposed IEEE standard P754,
> except for possibly Double Rounding during Gradual Underflow.
> The arithmetic diagnosed appears to be Excellent!
>
> The exception was a "denormalized operand" exception in the search for
> overflow threshold.
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2004-02-12 22:16 Andrew Simmons
2004-02-13 1:32 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
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2004-02-10 2:13 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2004-02-09 23:43 Bruce Ellis
2004-02-10 0:14 ` a
2004-02-10 1:44 ` David Presotto
2004-02-10 1:57 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-02-10 2:06 ` David Presotto
2004-02-10 2:53 ` Bruce Ellis
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