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Re:There are only four billion floats, so test them all (2014) by AI_WAIFU on Sunday October 11, 2020 @08:22PM (#24750317)
Does anyone know the risk of radiation bit flips in this case? I don't think it's an issue with ecc ram, but if it's not that could be a problem for certain applications.
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Re:There are only four billion floats, so test them all (2014) by count on Sunday October 11, 2020 @10:01PM (#24750791)
A friend of mine wrote a 'chaos engineering' tester for this specific issue: http://github.com/enferex/cme

Randomly inject bit flips into a target process memory space, so you can see/test how your software handles it (if at all).

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Re:There are only four billion floats, so test them all (2014) by sillysaurusx on Sunday October 11, 2020 @09:15PM (#24750566)
Exactly! I was wondering about that. It seems like it's so rare as not to matter, but that's no guarantee it won't matter.
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Re:There are only four billion floats, so test them all (2014) by fomine3 on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @12:00AM (#24772985)
Bit flip is always a risk even if you don't use ram disk.
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