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On Thu, 31 Jan 2019, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:

> i did most of my benchmarks on various 64bit arm cores.
> (which e.g. always have fma and int rounding instructions,
> so some things are designed differently than on x86, but
> the isa does not matter too much, the cpu internals matter
> more and those seem to be similar across targets)

I was/am impressed, especially as the accuracy improvement.

Thanks for indulging me with the explanations.

Regards - Damian

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