Re: Parsing timestamps?

On 13/07/2025 7:01 pm, Anton Ertl wrote:

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For Forth, Inc. and MPE AFAIK their respective IA-32 Forth system was
the only one with hardware FP for many years, so there probably was
little pressure from users for bit-identical results with, say, SPARC,
because they did not have a Forth system that ran on SPARC.

What do you mean by "bit-identical results"?  Since SSE2 comes without
transcendentals (or basics such as FABS and FNEGATE) and implementers
are expected to supply their own, if anything, I expect results across
platforms and compilers to vary.

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And as long as customers did not ask for bit-identical results to
those on, say, a Raspi, there was little reason to reimplement FP with
SSE2.  I wonder if the development of the SSE2 package for VFX was
influenced by the availability of VFX for the Raspi.

According to the change log it originally began as software floating
point for embedded systems and circa 2020 was converted to SSE and x64.
Perhaps Stephen can advise as to the reasons.

 
These Forth systems also don't do global register allocation or
auto-vectorization, so two other reasons why, e.g., C compilers chose
to use SSE2 on AMD64 (where SSE2 was guaranteed to be available) don't
exist for them.
 
- anton