Re: Linux 3.1-rc9

[Ingo Molnar]

* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 10/17/2011 02:39 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >>
> >> We can do much better than that with reciprocal multiplication.  
> > 
> > Yes, 2^64/1e9 is the reciprocal.
> > 
> 
> What I mean is that it's pretty easy to work it so it doesn't have 
> the errors. [...]

Yeah - the second pseudocode i gave will do that with no errors.

> [...] We have 32*32 = 64 multiplication on all 32-bit platforms I'm 
> 99.9% sure.

Good.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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