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- In article <3bt0b7$5ae@news.cs.tulane.edu>, hoesing@cs.tulane.edu (J.J.
- Hoesing) wrote:
-
- > In article <shfD0938M.4vu@netcom.com>, Stuart Ferguson <shf@netcom.com> wrote:
- > >a 10,000 point model, that might be the bug. If you render a hundred
- > >frames and find a single pixel the wrong color, that might be the bug.
- >
- > Almost everyone who has talked about the bug and graphics has said that
- > one wrong pixel is not a fatal error. I always look at it with the
- > question: What if the bug occurs during the computation of a rotation
- > matrix or some computation that would affect more than a pixel? Or if
- > it occurs while doing a write to the screen or some other array, under
- > the right circumstances, the program will crash. These would all be
- > very bad :-) and I would consider them to be fatal.
- > As to whether any of the above will actually occur with any frequency
- > (although I would consider just once enough cause to give Intel a call),
- > I guess we will have to wait and see.
- >
- > J.J.
- >
- > --
- > ___________________________________________________________________________
- > J.J. Hoesing | hoesing@cs.tulane.edu | http://www.cs.tulane.edu/www/Hoesing
- >
- > The story drives everything.
- > -John Lasseter
-
- According to a statement made by Intel the frequency of error is so low
- that you are more likely to have a hardware failure before you encounter
- this bug. I.E. it has to be a very specific bit pattern to trigger it.
- They claimed this is why it evaded the extensive beta test they conducted.
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- They also pointed out that NO microprocessor is BUG FREE.
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- Another in a long list of reasons why you should check your spread sheet
- results ;-)
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- Of course they didn't mention how many billions of FP divisions that
- lightwave makes during a week long render session. So you might see it
- before your drive melts down ;-) I don't know.
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