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.
Ciao,
Kili
