Always false float comparisons
Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon May 16 10:16:54 PDT 2016
On 5/16/2016 6:15 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 5/16/16 8:19 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> We are talking CTFE here, not runtime.
>
> I have big plans with floating-point CTFE and all are elastic: the faster CTFE
> FP is, the more and better things we can do. Things that other languages can't
> dream to do, like interpolation tables for transcendental functions. So a
> slowdown of FP CTFE would be essentially a strategic loss. -- Andrei
Based on my experience with soft float on DOS, and the fact that CPUs are what,
1000 times faster today, I have a hard time thinking of a case where that would
be a big problem.
I can't see someone running a meteorological prediction using CTFE :-)
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