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by yosefk 24 days ago
Flush denormals to zero. Even their inventor had trouble writing correct code in their presence - see the Appendix to that "what every programmer should know..." paper
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On the other hand, they (unexpectedly to the inventor, who intended them to be a debugging tool) underpin a few foundational results in correctly rounded computation, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterbenz_lemma.
> Even their inventor had trouble writing correct code in their presence

I didn't know that. Could you provide a more specific reference?