ProtoObject and comparison for equality and ordering

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Wed May 15 00:50:27 UTC 2019


On 5/14/19 1:37 AM, Mike Franklin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 May 2019 at 00:32:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
>>> Please consider the fact that some microcontrollers don't have an 
>>> FPU.  Some may have a software floating point implementation but 
>>> consider the cost in flash memory consumption and performance 
>>> implementing such a thing in software.  It seems excessive.
>>
>> Writing D code assuming float comparison is prohibitively expensive 
>> seems an .
> 
> Not sure if that was an incomplete thought or not, but it doesn't seem 
> like the right attitude for a systems programming language.

... anachronistic thing to do.


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