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by AlexeyBrin 3409 days ago
I think you are completely missing the point here. The HPC world is mostly concerned with the speed at which you get results, safety means almost nothing in this domain. What people typically do is to test their code against known input/output and check the relative error.

It is easier to debug and improve a fast program when you can have some result in 1 day versus same algorithm implemented in a slower language that takes one week.

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I have only been addressing your comments on safety. I have not addressed any of your comments on performance.