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Re: [Help-glpk] what is the difference between this two glpsol?


From: Michael Hennebry
Subject: Re: [Help-glpk] what is the difference between this two glpsol?
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:25:11 -0600 (CST)
User-agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20)

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Andrew Makhorin wrote:

Note that you should not expect identical results for different
compilers, because glpk uses floating-point computations.

On non-Intel machines, it might be more likely though.
On Intel machines and most compilers,
a double in a register is different from a double elsewhere.
Register useage affects the math.
On many other machines, register useage does not affect the math.

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