Re: about com (was: Motion 42: NO)
On 2013-02-07 15:03:56 +0100, Guillaume Melquiond wrote:
> Now, if the actual goal was that the evaluation does not depend on the
> flavor, it could have been defined just as that: "Definition: the exact
> same interval would have been computed for f(x) with any of the other
> flavors available." At least it would not suffer from the
> reproducibility issue which you point out.
But what if P1788 is implemented by a library, and only the
compiler controls the reproducibility?
--
Vincent Lefèvre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/>
100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/>
Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)