On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Matthias Kilian wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 10:08:25PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > Why we did not spot this earlier, I do not know. My guess is that not
> > a lot of programs use floating point for a long time where the values
> > are stored in registers and not loaded from memory. If they use
> > floating point, it's mostly for some quick short calculation, not some
> > number "crunching" in a tight loop like jot(1) does with -r.
> [...]
>
> Thanks for your explanations.
>
> However, I'm still puzzled by the fact that you couldn't reproduce the
> problem on a Mac Mini. That's just odd.
That was initiallly... after some more tries, I could reproduce it,
both with jot and my test program.
-Otto
