GNU Scientific Library in D

TomD t_demmer at nospam.web.de
Wed Aug 1 11:16:41 PDT 2007


Don Clugston Wrote:
[...]
> 
> It's even worse than that. Much of the FORTRAN code is actually a port from Algol!

Ahh interesting, I did not know that.
[...]
> Little things like failing to check for overflow. (eg, a-b can overflow if a is 
> large and positive, and b is large and negative). Sometimes these errors are not 
> present in the original Algol. Extremely poor performance for worst-case 
> situations. Mostly pretty obscure stuff.
Must be, I never noticed :-)

Ciao
Tom



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