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	account42 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: More floating point alternatives CPUs have many different configuration bits to configure floating point rounding, flushing denormals, etc. which mean that in practice anything that relies on floats being deterministic has the stability of a house of cards.
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messe 12 days ago [–]

All of which are well defined and can be configured from user space. That doesn't make them non-deterministic.

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