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The previous chapters have given an overview of interesting properties and algorithms that can be built on IEEE 754-compliant floating-point arithmetic. In this chapter, we discuss the practical issues encountered when trying to implement such algorithms in actual computers using actual programming languages. In particular, we discuss the relationship between standard compliance, portability, accuracy, and performance. This chapter is useful to a programmer wishing to obtain a standard-compliant behavior from his/her program, but it is also useful for understanding how performance may be improved by relaxing standard compliance and also what risks may be encountered.

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  1. CNRS, Laboratoire LIP, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46, allée d’Italie, 69364, Lyon Cedex 07, France

    Jean-Michel Muller & Nicolas Brisebarre

  2. ENSL, Laboratoire LIP, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46, allée d’Italie, 69364, Lyon Cedex 07, France

    Florent de Dinechin & Serge Torres

  3. INRIA, Laboratoire LIP, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46, allée d’Italie, 69364, Lyon Cedex 07, France

    Claude-Pierre Jeannerod, Vincent Lefèvre & Nathalie Revol

  4. INRIA Saclay – Île-de- France, Parc Orsay Université, 4, rue Jacques Monod, 91893, Orsay Cedex, France

    Guillaume Melquiond

  5. CNRS, Macquarie University, and University of Sydney School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Damien Stehlé

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Muller, JM. et al. (2010). Languages and Compilers. In: Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4705-6_7

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