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From: Robert W. <rj...@du...> - 2005-05-06 21:08:24
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> Depends on what you call "real applications." Some serious engineering, > analysis, chemistry+physics, and statistics codes won't work properly > under such a vex/valgrind-3. Such codes care about precision, track > it before+during+after the calculations, and make dynamic choices > based on observed trends in numerical error. They will get a different > answer under vex/valgrind-3, and execute different code while doing so. BLAS does this, and a lot of scientific codes use BLAS (and/or LAPACK, which is based on BLAS.) Regards, Robert. |