std.math performance (SSE vs. real)

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Sat, 2014-06-28 at 17:41 -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> On 6/28/2014 5:43 AM, Element 126 wrote:
> > +1 for float32 & cie. These names are much more explicit than the current ones.
> 
> I don't see any relevance to this discussion with whether 32 bit floats are 
> named 'float' or 'float32'.

This is getting way off the original thread, but…

The issue is what hardware representations are supported: what does
float mean? This is a Humpty Dumpty situation and "something must be
done". Hence Go stops with the undefined words and gives definite global
meanings to type names. It would be helpful if D eschewed the C/C++
heritage as well and got more definite about type names.

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