costs of avoiding extended-precision register allocation problems
David Hough
uunet!Eng.Sun.COM!dgh
Mon Mar 18 08:25:23 PST 1991
Turns out my memory of this stuff after five years was somewhat defective.
From the SunOS 3.2 Floating-Point Programmer's Guide,
for a Sun-3/160, compiling -O -f68881, double precision
linpack ran
100 KFLOPS -O -f68881
90 KFLOPS -O -f68881 -fstore
82 KFLOPS -O -f68881 setting double-precision rounding
in fpsr
So the penalties weren't too high for that system. They might be more
noticeable on a 3/470 with 33 MHz 68030/68882, but I'll leave that
investigation to somebody with a pressing interest in it.
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