Languages and Compilers

Jean-Michel Muller (), Nicolas Brisebarre (), Florent de Dinechin (), Claude-Pierre Jeannerod (), Vincent Lefèvre (), Guillaume Melquiond (), Nathalie Revol (), Damien Stehlé () and Serge Torres ()
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Jean-Michel Muller: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire LIP
Nicolas Brisebarre: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire LIP
Florent de Dinechin: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, ENSL, Laboratoire LIP
Claude-Pierre Jeannerod: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, INRIA, Laboratoire LIP
Vincent Lefèvre: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, INRIA, Laboratoire LIP
Guillaume Melquiond: Parc Orsay Université, INRIA Saclay – Île-de- France
Nathalie Revol: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, INRIA, Laboratoire LIP
Damien Stehlé: Macquarie University, and University of Sydney School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney, CNRS
Serge Torres: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, ENSL, Laboratoire LIP

Chapter Chapter 7 in Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic, 2010, pp 205-235 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The previous chapters have given an overview of interesting properties and algorithms that can be built on IEEE 754-compliant floating-point arithmetic. In this chapter, we discuss the practical issues encountered when trying to implement such algorithms in actual computers using actual programming languages. In particular, we discuss the relationship between standard compliance, portability, accuracy, and performance. This chapter is useful to a programmer wishing to obtain a standard-compliant behavior from his/her program, but it is also useful for understanding how performance may be improved by relaxing standard compliance and also what risks may be encountered.

Keywords: Virtual Machine; Java Virtual Machine; Standard Compliance; Default Behavior; Quadruple Precision (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-8176-4705-6_7

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