On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 12:41:38PM +0100, Toon Moene wrote:
> Well, that would put Suns (SPARCS running Solaris) at a severe
> disadvantage, I agree - most systems seem to cope, though ..
Now Toon, be nice and don't bait the Sun employee. Sparc is not the
only architecture which doesn't do well computing lots of denorms.
For example, flush to zero is important for getting good performance
on Opteron, Alpha, and some MIPS implementations.
-- greg
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