Re: [Caml-list] 32 bit floats, SSE instructions

[Kenneth Knowles <kknowles@berkeley.edu>]

I'll add my vote; I find Xavier's occasional comments to be the highlight of the
mailing list.  Kind of like some zen priest who disarms an angry mob with a
single phrase...

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:15:09PM -0500, Daniel Ortmann wrote:
> Yes, please.  I also would like to read your reply.
> 
> 
> Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr> 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.
> 
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