Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:17:41 -0500 | | From | Tom Vier <> | | Subject | Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64 |
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On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 07:38:59PM -0500, Timothy Miller wrote: > In theory, IEEE FP is IEEE FP, but it seems that Intel may have cheated > in their design, silently reducing precision for the sake of some other > aspect of their design, making their processors less useful (or > useless?) for scientific applications. Another example of Intel > arrogance? Or perhaps a reasonable design compromise? You decide.
did they use -miiie? was the same compiler (exact same version) used? if the answer to either is no, that would account for the difference.
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