[gambit-list] Use SSE when available
Bradley Lucier
lucier at math.purdue.edu
Thu Nov 9 21:32:34 EST 2006
Marc:
You should probably set a C compiler option enable SSE/SSe2/...
instructions on x86 and x86-64 processors when they're available.
(That might be the default in gcc for x86-64.) Right how Gambit sets
the rounding precision to "double" to remove some problems with
double roundings (to "extended" and then to "double"), but there
still can be problems because of the differences in the exponent
range between the extended precision floats that the registers in x87
use and the double precision floats that are boxed (or put in
f64vectors, ...). Using the SSE instruction set would match the
model that Gambit uses for floating-point.
Brad
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