Movement against float.init being nan

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue Aug 30 22:08:48 UTC 2022


On 8/30/2022 9:25 AM, Salih Dincer wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 August 2022 at 16:16:38 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 30 August 2022 at 15:50:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> -release is for people who do speed benchmarks.
>>
>> The documentation should outright say then "never use this unless you are 
>> cheating on an artificial speed benchmark".
> 
> -release says use me in terms of meaning, but masters says don't use it. I 
> didn't know it had such dire consequences. This is an issue that affects 
> contract programming.

It's not dire. It's just necessary to understand what's happening. People who do 
speed benchmarks rarely do more than glance at the documentation, if that.



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