From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: GNAT Optimization of Constant Expressions
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 13:27:45 +0200
Date: 2007-05-18T13:27:45+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179487665.6721.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f2iou1$ks5$1@jacob-sparre.dk>
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:38 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> Ada has fairly strict requirements on accuracy that C and
> Fortran don't have. An optimizer shouldn't be providing the *wrong* answer
> in order to make code fast;
An Apple employee once recommended using the then new FPT
optimizations and to see whether the optimized program will meet
the expectations. ("You can always sell speed".) So maybe accurate
computation is a far reaching requirement for some software
markets.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-18 11:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-16 22:37 GNAT Optimization of Constant Expressions David Smith
2007-05-17 4:50 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-05-17 20:03 ` Gautier
2007-05-17 20:46 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-05-17 22:49 ` David Smith
2007-05-17 23:38 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-05-18 7:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-05-18 11:27 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2007-05-18 17:28 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-05-18 16:25 ` Ray Blaak
2007-05-18 17:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-05-18 22:51 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-05-19 2:44 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-05-18 9:05 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-05-18 9:47 ` Florian Weimer
2007-05-18 11:32 ` Duncan Sands
2007-05-18 17:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-05-18 17:35 ` Duncan Sands
[not found] ` <200705181935.23877.baldrick@free.fr>
2007-05-18 17:49 ` Duncan Sands
2007-05-17 5:30 ` Martin Krischik
2007-05-18 9:56 ` Duncan Sands
2007-05-18 15:39 ` David Smith
2007-05-18 17:08 ` Duncan Sands
[not found] ` <200705181908.54920.baldrick@free.fr>
2007-05-18 17:32 ` Duncan Sands
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