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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Subject: Re: Parsing timestamps?
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:23:03 GMT
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minforth <minforth@gmx.net> writes:
>Am 16.07.2025 um 13:25 schrieb Anton Ertl:
>> I did not do any accuracy measurements, but I did performance
>> measurements
>YMMV but "fast but wrong" would not be my goal.  ;-)

I did test correctness with cases where roundoff errors do not play a
role.

As mentioned, the RECursive balanced-tree sum (which is also the
fastest on several systems and absolutely) is expected to be more
accurate in those cases where roundoff errors do play a role.  But if
you care about that, better design a test and test it yourself.  It
will be interesting to see how you find out which result is more
accurate when they differ.

- anton
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