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Re: Terrible FPU performance

From Dan Goodman <dg.gmane@thesamovar.net>
Subject Re: Terrible FPU performance
Date 2011-04-26 21:14 +0200
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Hi,

On 26/04/2011 15:40, Mihai Badoiu wrote:
 > I have terrible performance for multiplication when one number gets very
 > close to zero.  I'm using cython by writing the following code:

This might be an issue with denormal numbers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denormal_number

I don't know much about them though, so I can't advise any further than 
that...

Dan

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Re: Terrible FPU performance Dan Goodman <dg.gmane@thesamovar.net> - 2011-04-26 21:14 +0200

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