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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next prev parent 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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