Was that using Java 17+, which included JEP 306 delivered? Em dom., 8 de mai. de 2022 às 08:10, Martin Desruisseaux < martin.desruisse...@geomatys.com> escreveu:
> Le 08/05/2022 à 10:56, Andrew Haley a écrit : > > > Some targets (x86, in particular) have intrinsics (log, trig) that are > > faster than StrictMath and also more accurate. StrictMath is not about > > accuracy, but cross-architecture down-to-the-last bit reproducibility. > > Whether we still need that reproducibility is, I suppose, something > > for debate. > > > In production code, maybe not. But in test code (e.g. using JUnit), when > the program does a lot of trigonometric operations (e.g. map > projections), I have meet cases where a test was successful on a machine > but failed on another machine. The systematic use of StrictMath in all > JUnit test code ensure that the difference in behavior is not in the > test code, so we can focus our debugging effort on the main code. > > Martin > > >
