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		JoachimSchipper on Feb 8, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SBCL quicker than C? As I recall, this had very little to do with this guy complaints - it was a mixture of C allowing use of x87 80-bit-wide doubles and not allowing sufficient reordering of operations. That said, yes, restrict was added for this kind of thing.

neutronicus on Feb 8, 2011 [–]

x87

I'm sure he cackled into his pocket protector at the recent PHP/Java/gcc floating point parsing fiasco.

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