From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dad65365cb2b3396 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,dad65365cb2b3396 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,dad65365cb2b3396 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,dad65365cb2b3396 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: Ken Garlington Subject: Re: The disturbing myth of Eiffel portability Date: 1996/11/22 Message-ID: <3296011F.1ECB@lmtas.lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 198175162 references: <3294e64b.74799475@news2.ibm.net> <56t1m4$nis@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <1996Nov20.065345.1@eisner> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ x-mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Macintosh; I; 68K) Date: 1996-11-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > > In article , 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. And, also to be fair, many of us computer scientists who got the "equality bad" speech in numerical methods courses were _using_ machines that were designed before the IEEE standard. :) > > Larry Kilgallen -- LMTAS - "Our Brand Means Quality" For more info, see http://www.lmtas.com or http://www.lmco.com