"Will M. Farr" [Mon, 7 Feb 2005]:
 > When I ran it on my system using Shark (a Mac OS X profiling 
 > application that doesn't require hooks in the app itself to get the 
 > information), the breakdown of the significant values was
 > 
 > 48.1% in advance
 > 34% in __sqrt (system function)
          ^^^^^^
in that case, the -ffast-math compiler switch will probably make a
noticeable difference on x86 (but maybe that's cheating).

-- 
   Olivier