Bob Tennent wrote:
| It should be functionally identical to musixflx.c (up to round-off
|error).
|
|Is this just a throw-away line or are there actual systemic differences
|in the precision of the floating point variables used? Floating point
|calculations are a CPU function - it would be
Dirk Laurie wrote:
1. Identical results on the same architecture requires switching off *all*
optimization in the C compiler. Not even a widely disseminated
software package such as BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines)
promises identical runs nowadays, even for two runs on the
Hi Christian, Dirk and Don,
Thank you very much for your help. First of all this is my whole project:
Typesetting a complete catholic mass by Abbatini (1600 - 1679) of 16 voices
with all 5 parts
(Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus-Dei). You may find this mass at
www.rzuser.uni-
|Possibly, but if two scripts were being maintained then I'd maintain
|that identical output is the more critical thing to have (and, yes, in
|the 16th decimal place - no optimising compiler re-orders floating point
|instructions without being told that unsafe optimisations are allowed
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