performance implications of -prec-div

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performance implications of -prec-div

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Hi ,

Could someone please give an estimate of the expected slowdown of -prec-div on modern hardware.

I.e. what is the performance of a instructions like divps versus the newton-raphson sequence:

        rcpps
        mulps
        mulps
        addps
        subps

Without -prec-div the compiler may choose to do newton-raphson within the main vector loop while using divps in the peel loop

and that can affect the run-to-run reproducibility that I would like to maintain.

Ragards

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