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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Multiplication of matrix in C and OCaml
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:24:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702100224.32450.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <121wkybxh5.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de>

On Saturday 10 February 2007 01:41, ls-ocaml-developer-2006@m-e-leypold.de 
wrote:
> Sorry, I wanted to say "optimize (a * b) *c == a * (b * c) to true",
> i.e. 1. Would the compiler be wrong/incorrect in doing so?

Yes.

> I don't think so.

Provided you only specify -O* optimisation flags, I believe that reducing that 
expression to "true" in the general case would be a compiler bug. If you 
specify flags like -ffast-math then anything can happen, but it will happen 
very quickly! ;-)

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
OCaml for Scientists
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists


  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-10  2:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-07 23:42 Frédéric Gava
2007-02-08  2:14 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2007-02-08  9:27   ` Frédéric Gava
2007-02-08  9:38     ` Frédéric Gava
2007-02-08 12:08     ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-02-08  9:56   ` Frédéric Gava
2007-02-08 10:45     ` Xavier Leroy
2007-02-08 15:16       ` Frédéric Gava
2007-02-09  2:58         ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-02-09  9:06           ` ls-ocaml-developer-2006
2007-02-09 10:32             ` ls-ocaml-developer-2006
2007-02-09 14:22               ` skaller
2007-02-09 21:47                 ` ls-ocaml-developer-2006
2007-02-09 21:55                   ` Andrej Bauer
2007-02-09 22:36                     ` ls-ocaml-developer-2006
2007-02-09 23:53                       ` Jon Harrop
2007-02-10  1:41                         ` ls-ocaml-developer-2006
2007-02-10  2:24                           ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2007-02-10 14:41                             ` ls-ocaml-developer-2006
2007-02-10 14:52                               ` Jon Harrop
2007-02-10 15:51                                 ` ls-ocaml-developer-2006
2007-02-10 16:10                                   ` Xavier Leroy
2007-02-10 16:11                                   ` Jon Harrop
2007-02-10 14:55                               ` Mattias Engdegård
2007-02-11 13:13                             ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-02-10  1:10                     ` Brian Hurt
2007-02-10  1:16                       ` Robert Roessler
2007-02-09 23:56                 ` Jon Harrop
2007-02-09 12:05             ` Jon Harrop
2007-02-09 12:35               ` ls-ocaml-developer-2006
2007-02-09 13:50             ` Brian Hurt
2007-02-09 14:23               ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-02-09 14:24 Frederic GAVA

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