Terrible FPU performance

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Apr 26 17:57:32 EDT 2011


On 4/26/2011 3:27 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>      for 0<= i<  10000000:
>>           x *= 0.8
>>           #x += 0.01
>>       print x

In my WinXP (Athlon), 3.2 standard install

x=1.0
print(x)
for i in range(10000000):
       x *= 0.8
       x += 0.01
print(x)

takes about 3 1/2 secs with addition commented out and about 4 when 
included as above, which is about what I would expect.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy




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