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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: PARANOIA (was Re: MIPS supports 80- & 128-bit floats.)
Message-ID: <3123@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 89 06:16:38 GMT
References: <10452@obiwan.mips.COM> <325@loligo.fsu.edu> <13142@cup.portal.com> <350@loligo.fsu.edu>
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In article <350@loligo.fsu.edu>, mccalpin@loligo.fsu.edu (John McCalpin) writes:
> I recently ran the PARANOIA floating-point validation test on a wide
> variety of machines, and found precisely ONE that passed all the
> tests.  I later found two more, out of about 15 machines/vendors
> tested. The Sun workstations, HP workstations, and MIPS machines passed
> OK.

The AT&T 3B20 also passes PARANOIA (single precision is "Excellent", double
precision "Satisfactory" [it doesn't chop or round sqrt() correctly]).
But it's a slow machine, only about 0.8 mips.

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