[LLVMdev] Another compiler shootout

[Jon Harrop]

On Tuesday 16 December 2008 04:26:40 Jon Harrop wrote:
> I am unfamiliar with x86 assembler but I believe the problem is that LLVM
> is calling a function for fsqrt rather than using the x86 op-code. Should I
> be passing some command line arguments or using a newer llvm-gcc to get it
> to emit fsqrt or is that not yet implemented?

This may also explain the one anomalous result here:

  http://leonardo-m.livejournal.com/73732.html

On the nbody shootout because that also has a sqrt at its core:

      double distance = sqrt(dx * dx + dy * dy + dz * dz);

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