Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64

[Tom Vier]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 07:38:59PM -0500, Timothy Miller wrote:
> In theory, IEEE FP is IEEE FP, but it seems that Intel may have cheated 
> in their design, silently reducing precision for the sake of some other 
> aspect of their design, making their processors less useful (or 
> useless?) for scientific applications.  Another example of Intel 
> arrogance?  Or perhaps a reasonable design compromise?  You decide.

did they use -miiie? was the same compiler (exact same version) used? if the
answer to either is no, that would account for the difference.

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