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AVX
Advanced Vector Extensions
binary64
IEEE 754-2008 double precision
C11
C programming language standard ISO/IEC 9899:2011
C++11
C++ programming language standard ISO/IEC 14882:2011
CPU
Central Processing Unit
FMA
Fused Multiply-Add
FLOP
Floating-point Operation
FPU
Floating-Point Unit
GCC
GNU Compiler Collection http://gcc.gnu.org
GLIBC
GNU C Library https://www.gnu.org/software/libc
LIBSTDC++
GNU Standard C++ Library http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++
MXCSR
Media eXtension Control and Status Register
IEEE 754-1985
IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic (also known as IEC 60559:1989)
IEEE 754-2008
IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic
MMX
Floating-Point instruction set
SSE
Streaming SIMD Extensions
SIMD
Single Instruction Multiple Data