On Mar 13, 2008, at 5:12 , Ketil Malde wrote:

Perhaps now everybody uses SSE to do math, but earlier Intel FPU
architectures did floating point with 80-bit registers, so the
accuracy of the result could depend on whether an intermediate result
was flushed to memory (by a context switch).

Double operations in IO, anyone?  :/

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