"James C. McPherson" wrote:
> Roland Mainz wrote:
> > What is the "Floating point scrubber" referenced in CR #6656791
> > ("Floating point scrubber needs weaker CPU and processor set bindings")
> > ? I know the memory and cache scrubbers but a scrubber system for
> > floating-point sounds... weired.
>
> I could be facetious and say that it's a reaction to all the
> hard work you put in with fp in ksh93 ......
>
> But I won't ;-)
>
> We have ecache scrubbers, my guess *note that I'm not
> commenting from a position of knowledge* is that this is
> something similar, but for fp units.
Groan... do you mean that if a FPU is idle for long time it may start to
"miscalculate" things ?
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Bye,
Roland
P.S.: Is this for x86, SPARC or both ?
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