Brodie Gaslam wrote:
> André,
> I'm not an R core member, but happen to have looked a little bit at this
> issue myself. I've seen similar things on Skylake and Coffee Lake 2
> (9700, one generation past your latest) too. I think it would make sense
> to have some handling of this, although I
André,
I'm not an R core member, but happen to have looked a little bit at this
issue myself. I've seen similar things on Skylake and Coffee Lake 2
(9700, one generation past your latest) too. I think it would make sense
to have some handling of this, although I would want to show the
Dear R developers,
By default, R uses the "long double" data type to get extra precision for
intermediate computations, with a small performance tradeoff.
Unfortunately, on all Intel x86 computers I have ever seen, long doubles
(implemented in the x87 FPU) are extremely slow whenever a special
