Why don't we switch to C like floating pointed arithmetic instead of automatic expansion to reals?

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 09:21:53 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote:
> On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 08:43:48 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 08:17:00 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko 
>> wrote:
>>> 1. Could you please provide an assembler example with clang 
>>> or recent gcc?
>>
>> I have better: compile your favorite project with 
>> -Wdouble-promotion and enjoy the rain of warnings.
>>
>> But try it yourself:
>>
>> float foo(float a, float b) {
>>   return 3.0 * a / b;
>> }
>
> Your example is just a speculation. 3.0 force compiler to 
> convert a and  b to double. This is obvious.

Ha you are right.

Testing more it seems that gcc and clang are not promoting on 64 
bit code, but still are on 32 bits.