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: 109fba,dad65365cb2b3396 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,dad65365cb2b3396 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,dad65365cb2b3396 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dad65365cb2b3396 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 106c43,dad65365cb2b3396 X-Google-Attributes: gid106c43,public From: Francois Labreque Subject: Re: The disturbing myth of Eiffel portability Date: 1996/11/21 Message-ID: <570j6p$nlq$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 197759768 references: <3294e64b.74799475@news2.ibm.net> <56t1m4$nis@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: ibm.net mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.object x-mailer: Mozilla 1.1 (Windows; I; 16bit) Date: 1996-11-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote: >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. > I think the original discussion involved "Large US Banks having European branches" i.e. The-One-Bank-Where-CJ3-Worked-Therefore-All-Of-Them, and I really don't think that we'll see Java-enabled bank machines or terminals really soon. Most of the banks still use COBOL on their mainframes and are too busy making their code and databases survive the year 2000 to think about Java. Anyway, I agree with you that unless you deal with the infinitely small or infinitely large, gone are the days where you had to substract two floats and see if the difference was less than some predefined "tiny" value rather than testing them for equality. -- Francois Labreque | "The surest sign of the existence of extraterrestrial flabreq@ibm.net | intelligence is that they never bothered to come and flab@ca.ibm.com | visit us" - Calvin I may work for them, but i'm not paid enough to speak for them!