[Shootout-list] Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml sums the harmonic series --
four ways, four benchmarks: floating point performance
Erik de Castro Lopo
ocaml-erikd at mega-nerd.com
Sun Apr 23 22:54:50 UTC 2006
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:24:19 -0500
John Prevost <j.prevost at gmail.com> wrote:
> As for whether there's a quick "convert int to float" call in Intel, I
> really have no idea. The assembly for the simple function:
>
> let test x = float_of_int x
>
> isn't trivial, however.
Int to float should just work. Int to float is another matter. See
this:
http://www.mega-nerd.com/FPcast/
Erik
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