Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Maybe he was trying to use the same FPU code that the other languages were 
> using. SSE uses a whole different execution model, yes?

  Why should that matter? The compiler should optimize as well as it can,
using any means it can.

  The SSE version would most probably have not been significantly faster,
but he would have got his 64-bit rounding without having to resort to
non-standard code.

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