Re: Possible loss of accuracy

[John W. Eaton]

On 05/15/2013 01:11 PM, Sergei Steshenko wrote:

> IIRC, on x86-64 80 bit FP registers are _not_ used.
>
> Is you machine by any chance a 64 bit one ?

Yes.  Also, Octave doesn't do the kinds of expression optimizations that 
are typically done by a Fortran compiler, so each subexpression is 
computed and the result is stored to memory.  So that could explain 
differences as well.

jwe