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From: Florian Hars <hars@bik-gmbh.de>
To: "Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@indiegamedesign.com>
Cc: caml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] tail recursion and register poor Intel architecture
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 08:53:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40EE40F5.4010406@bik-gmbh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OOEALCJCKEBJBIJHCNJDIEOPHEAB.vanevery@indiegamedesign.com>

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Well, you could pass the first 6 integer arguments via the normal
> registers, the first 8 floating point arguments via the x87 FPU, and the
> next 8 integer or float arguments via the XMM registers.

But this will give you different results for your computations, depending on 
argument ordering (if you push an argument from the last x87 register to the 
first XMM register, it loses 16 bits). Not really a desirable property...
But then, floating point on computers sucks, anyway.

Yours, Florian Hars.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-09  6:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-07  6:45 [Caml-list] Does Caml have slow arithmetics ? Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-07-07  8:14 ` Richard Jones
2004-07-07  9:13 ` Basile Starynkevitch [local]
2004-07-07 12:32   ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-07-07 13:00     ` Basile Starynkevitch [local]
2004-07-07 15:09       ` Olivier Pérès
2004-07-07 17:06         ` David Brown
2004-07-07 17:43           ` Olivier Pérès
2004-07-08  3:40             ` David Brown
2004-07-08 11:06               ` Olivier Pérès
2004-07-07 13:06     ` Richard Jones
2004-07-07 13:22     ` David Haguenauer
2004-07-07 15:48     ` Brian Hurt
2004-07-07 13:57   ` Evgeny Chukreev
2004-07-07 14:58     ` Xavier Leroy
2004-07-07 15:48       ` Evgeny Chukreev
2004-07-07 19:16       ` skaller
2004-07-08  3:44         ` David Brown
2004-07-08  5:50           ` skaller
2004-07-08  9:51           ` Andreas Rossberg
2004-07-08 12:03             ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-07-08 14:04             ` David Brown
2004-07-08 14:36               ` Luc Maranget
2004-07-08 15:11                 ` Alex Baretta
2004-07-08 15:49                   ` Luc Maranget
2004-07-09 14:06                     ` Alex Baretta
2004-07-09 16:20                       ` Markus Mottl
     [not found]                     ` <Luc.Maranget@inria.fr>
2004-07-09 17:54                       ` Norman Ramsey
2004-07-12  8:08                         ` Luc Maranget
2004-07-08 15:51                   ` Markus Mottl
2004-07-08 18:27                     ` skaller
2004-07-08 21:14                     ` [Caml-list] tail recursion and register poor Intel architecture Brandon J. Van Every
2004-07-08 21:35                       ` Brian Hurt
2004-07-08 23:01                         ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-07-09  4:36                           ` Brian Hurt
2004-07-09  6:53                           ` Florian Hars [this message]
2004-07-09 14:44                             ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-07-09  6:55                           ` skaller
2004-07-09 14:45                             ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-07-09 16:09                               ` skaller
2004-07-10  9:19                                 ` [Caml-list] embedded OCaml Brandon J. Van Every
2004-07-11 23:11                                   ` Alex Baretta
2004-07-12  7:39                                     ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-07-12 14:04                                       ` Alex Baretta
2004-07-12 18:48                                         ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-07-12 23:22                                           ` Richard Jones
2004-07-13  6:39                                             ` Alex Baretta
2004-07-13  8:47                                               ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-07-13  8:58                                                 ` Benjamin Geer
2004-07-13  9:47                                                   ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-07-13  9:18                                                 ` Damien Doligez
2004-07-13  9:56                                                   ` [Caml-list] OCaml as business model Brandon J. Van Every
2004-07-13  9:59                                                     ` Richard Jones
2004-07-13 10:50                                                       ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-07-13 11:20                                                     ` Damien Doligez
2004-07-13 12:01                                                       ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-07-14  8:05                                                 ` [Caml-list] embedded OCaml I R T
2004-07-12 10:25                                     ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-07-13  7:06                                       ` Alex Baretta
2004-07-08 17:12                 ` Tail calls (Was Re: [Caml-list] Does Caml have slow arithmetics ?) brogoff
2004-07-08 17:23                   ` Richard Jones
2004-07-12 17:07                   ` Xavier Leroy
2004-07-12 21:13                     ` skaller
2004-07-13  7:20                       ` Xavier Leroy
2004-07-08 15:00             ` [Caml-list] Does Caml have slow arithmetics ? Brian Hurt
2004-07-08 13:30         ` Alex Baretta
2004-07-07 21:26       ` Jon Harrop
2004-07-08  5:05         ` Jacques GARRIGUE

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