What happened to the profile?

Thiago Macieira thiago at macieira.org
Mon Oct 7 11:40:56 UTC 2013


On segunda-feira, 7 de outubro de 2013 11:26:24, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So I think the Qt function works, but that thing is declared to be
> internal. I think my simple function is perfectly sufficient. I
> suspect that in practice, my simple stupid version could be made to be
> good to the last bit by simply using "long double" and doing all the
> internal calculations in 80-bit FP (on x86). But for our XML parsing
> needs, we really don't need it.

Using 80-bit FP will cause the use of the old x87 FPU and instructions, as 
opposed to the SSE2 engine. Let's avoid it if we don't need it.

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