From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com>, Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au>, <moshier@moshier.ne.mediaone.net>, <tprince@computer.org>, <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: What is acceptable for -ffast-math? (Was: associative law in   combine)
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 02:04:00 -0000
Message-id: <fln15leagh.fsf@jambon.cmla.ens-cachan.fr>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107301823400.19511-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg02086.html

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:

| > As von Neumann said once
| >
| >    Numerical computation is too serious to be left to the computer
| >    scientist.
| 
| Yeah. And as Linus once said: most numerical problems today in pure CPU
| cycles are actually 3D games.

Then Linus need to be educated about numerical problems.

| Your arguments about "numerical computation" are just silly, as you don't
| seem to realize that there are tons of problems where your theoretical
| issues are nothing more than noise.

Not just because you claim they are silly makes them so.
More to the point, you don't seem to realize that there are tons of
problems where your theoretical issues of speed are nothing more than
noise. 

-- Gaby