[mdlug] For The Mathematically Inclined.

[Raymond Ingles]

I wonder if anyone will take this test suite and see if they can improve
GLIBC? That's certainly been done with testing tools that find bugs in the
Linux kernel.

On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 7:35 AM LAP <mail1 at lapiet.info> wrote:

> It may be hard for some to believe, but the original purpose,
> and still very much a priamry purpose, of the computer was to
> facilitate mathematical computation.
>
> How does GNU/Linux fare in its mathematical capability?
>
> The following paper may be of interest:
>
> https://members.loria.fr/PZimmermann/papers/accuracy.pdf
>
> Focus on page 8, where the results of the GNU C Library
> are compared against other math libraries for computations
> involving the C "double" type, which is the most commonly
> used C type in math work.
>
> Impressively, the GNU C Library is second only to the Intel
> Math Kernel Library (MKL) in overall accuracy -- but it's
> a very close second.
>
> The bold-faced typeface indicates the most accurate performance
> in a particular row, and GLIBC ranks the highest in many areas.
>
> Microsoft's MSVC does rather poorly overall.
>
> Thus, those of you who do scientific/engineering/math work
> with GNU/Linux can feel confident.
>
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