Terrible FPU performance

[Dan Goodman]

Hi,

On 26/04/2011 15:40, Mihai Badoiu wrote:
 > I have terrible performance for multiplication when one number gets very
 > close to zero.  I'm using cython by writing the following code:

This might be an issue with denormal numbers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denormal_number

I don't know much about them though, so I can't advise any further than 
that...

Dan