Re: Balance

["J. Wolff v. Gudenberg" <wolff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are working on a new major release of filib++
using Lambov's ideas and expression templates (in C++)

Juergen

Paul Zimmermann schrieb:
> > On all existing processors interval operations are slower by magnitudes 
> > than the corresponding floating-point operations. This is the great 
> > hindrance to a wider acceptance. The main reasons why software 
> > simulations of interval arithmetic are slow are the case selections for 
> > interval multiplication (9 cases) and for division (14 cases) and the 
> > simulation and frequent changes of the rounding mode.
>
> in a Dagstuhl seminar in January 2006, Branimir Lambov showed how to use
> *existing* hardware (namely SSE-2) to get fast interval arithmetic. See
> kathrin.dagstuhl.de/files/Materials/06/06021/06021.LambovBranimir.Slides.pdf,
> especially slide 18. Does any current implementation make use of his ideas?
>
> Paul Zimmermann

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