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Subject: Re: Suggestion: Add -ffast-math to default BOOT_CFLAGS
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:24:21PM -0500, Kelley Cook wrote:
> life analysis          4.94        4.02       -0.92
> name lookup            8.83        8.35       -0.48
> garbage collection     5.98        5.83       -0.15

Where, pray, is the floating point in these passes
that would be affected by -ffast-math at all?

AFAIK there isn't any, which makes your numbers
highly suspicious.


r~