6 Mar
2013
6 Mar
'13
10:34 a.m.
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 06:45:17PM +0100, Kentaro Takami wrote:
http://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/article/164389/fp-consistency-... say that the performance is reduced by 12-15%.
I would be careful with using such numbers. I would expect this to depend quite heavily on your specific application. (For these numbers Intel used the Speccpu2006fp benchmark.) I wonder what the impact on one of our typical simulations is.
In the end it's a trade-off between accuracy and speed.
Frank