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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Cc: shootout-list@lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml sums the harmonic series -- four ways, four benchmarks: floating point performance
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:50:57 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050114075057.32893dd9.ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d849ad2a050113122479b0f86c@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:24:19 -0500
John Prevost <j.prevost@gmail.com> wrote:

> As for whether there's a quick "convert int to float" call in Intel, I
> really have no idea.  The assembly for the simple function:
> 
> let test x = float_of_int x
> 
> isn't trivial, however.

Int to float should just work. Int to float is another matter. See
this:

    http://www.mega-nerd.com/FPcast/

Erik
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  Erik de Castro Lopo  nospam@mega-nerd.com (Yes it's valid)
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"Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to 
how they should solve some problem, they said, "OK, we'll do them 
both". So the language is too baroque for my taste." -- Donald E Knuth


  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-13 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-13 15:53 Will M. Farr
2005-01-13 17:29 ` [Caml-list] " John Prevost
2005-01-13 19:01   ` Will M. Farr
2005-01-13 20:24     ` John Prevost
2005-01-13 20:50       ` Erik de Castro Lopo [this message]
2005-01-13 21:32         ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2005-01-15 11:55 ` Xavier Leroy
2005-01-15 15:49   ` Michal Moskal
2005-01-15 17:01   ` [Caml-list] [FP performance] Ocaml sums the harmonic series Christophe TROESTLER
2005-01-15 17:13   ` [Caml-list] Ocaml sums the harmonic series -- four ways, four benchmarks: floating point performance Yaron Minsky
2005-01-23  2:27 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-01-23  6:07   ` Will M. Farr
2005-01-23 15:18     ` Oliver Bandel
2005-01-16  9:57 Philippe Lelédy

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