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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: The disturbing myth of Eiffel portability
Date: 1996/11/20
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In article <dewar.848444338@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> This *huge* performance hit occurs on fewer and fewer machines, nearly all
> machines now support IEEE arithmetic, and the decision to require this
> semantis in Java represents a final nail in the coffin for weird (and often
> badly designed) non-IEEE arithmetic systems. 

To be fair, many of the machines whose native floating point arithmetic
is non-IEEE were designed before the IEEE standard.  Manufacturers also
owe some continuity to their existing customers.

Larry Kilgallen