At 9:53 PM -0700 7/9/05, Ulrich Drepper wrote: >Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; > protocol="application/pgp-signature"; > boundary="------------enigAD37CF810E21D765208A1EDB" > >D. Angelis wrote: >> I have noticed a significant (up to 5 times !!!) slowdown of some math >> functions in /lib64/libm.so.6 (glibc-2.3-5) shipped with FC3 >> compared to the version (glibc-2.3.3) shipped with SuSe 9.1. > >Very simple explanation: the other code uses non-standard math functions >which are optimized for the processor but don't produce the same >results. Remember, I can arbitrarily fast compute wrong results. That is, please check that the functions you are testing are producing the same output on each system tested, and show that output. (Not just the sums, also the basic functions passed to loop(), with reasonable test inputs.) Umm, I think that (real Sun) Java requires the math library to produce the same result on any conforming platform; that might be useful to you as a baseline (though trig identities might also be useful). ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
