[MLton-devel] cvs commit: Real32 and Real64 improvements

Stephen Weeks MLton@mlton.org
Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:37:13 -0700


> Bizzare.  I assume that -ffast-math is just using the instructions and I
> thought that they did the `right' thing.

Yeah.  I have no idea how it helps gcc speedwise on x86 to violate
IEEE on arithmetic and comparisons.

> Were we compiling with -ffast-math before? 

No.

> Also does it explain any of the BSD differences since the info pages
> seemed to indicate that there was some difference in the default
> settings for gcc on that OS.

I would guess it doesn't since we didn't use it.



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