From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA25571; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 19:58:35 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA25877; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 19:58:34 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from hermes1.umh.ac.be (hermes.umh.ac.be [193.190.193.76]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i59HwXSH008201; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 19:58:33 +0200 Received: from poincare (mail@poincare.swapping.umh.ac.be [10.102.100.13]) by hermes1.umh.ac.be (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i59HwEuZ1130580; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 19:58:18 +0200 Received: from poincare ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost ident=trch) by poincare with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BY7Lg-0003jQ-00; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 19:58:52 +0200 Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 19:58:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <20040609.195851.23038890.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> To: xavier.leroy@inria.fr Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] 32 bit floats, SSE instructions From: Christophe TROESTLER In-Reply-To: <20040609182602.D17538@pauillac.inria.fr> References: <200406081815.20679.jdh30@cam.ac.uk> <20040609182602.D17538@pauillac.inria.fr> Organization: Universite de Mons-Hainaut X-URL: http://www.umh.ac.be/math/an/ X-Spook: undercover JPL Peking S Key pink noise cybercash AMW keyhole threat strategic X-Mailer-URL: http://www.mew.org/ X-Operating-System: GNU/Linux (http://www.linux.org/) X-Blessing: Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Pema Siddhi Hum X-Mailer: Mew version 4.0.61 on Emacs 21.3.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.1 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 40C74FC9.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 floats:01 troestler:01 troestler:01 floats:01 quoting:01 posts:01 chris:01 christophe:01 christophe:01 -bit:01 ocaml:01 wrote:03 types:03 types:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Xavier Leroy wrote: > > I was about to post a long and detailed reply explaining the > difference between computational types and storage types, why I > think 32-bit floats might be useful as the latter but not at the > former, quoting cycle counts from various processor manuals, mention > what could conceivably be done in OCaml at minimal implementation > costs, discuss SSE2 a bit, and generally answer the OP's initial > questions. [...] Then I decided not to post. Please consider to do it for those, like me, who always learn a lot from this kind of posts. Cheers, ChriS ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners