[Haskell-cafe] haskell version of fractal benchmark

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Fri Jun 8 04:52:29 EDT 2007


Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> Some things to remember using Doubles:
>
>     * {-# OPTIONS -fexcess-precision #-} 
>     * -fvia-C
>     * -fbang-patterns
>     * -optc-O2 -optc-mfpmath=sse -optc-msse2
>     * -optc-march=pentium4
>   

1. What do all those things do?
2. Is the effect actually that large?



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