[Mesa-dev] Precision of float and trigonometric functions on i965

Ilia Mirkin imirkin at alum.mit.edu
Thu Dec 11 11:13:05 PST 2014


On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Chris Forbes <chrisf at ijw.co.nz> wrote:
> Iago,
>
> This doesn't matter for GL conformance -- but the impression I get is
> that dEQP is aiming at something more.
>
> In any case, the usual problem with this is inaccurate range
> reduction, which is fixable in software at some performance cost. The
> C library does this, for example.

Probably related to this:

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underestimates-error-bounds-by-1-3-quintillion/


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