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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: Ada for numerics computation (i.e. forget Fortran ?)
Date: 1999/04/25
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In article <7fvbth$4m4$1@news.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>,
  Edwin Guenthner
<s_guenth@studsun1.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> There are even some people who think that Java will be
> the future in numerical computing (see
> http://www.javagrande.org/).

Seems unlikely unless the fundamental problems with the
floating-point model of Java are solved. The current
spec requires disastrously inefficient execution modes
on many high performance machines.

The goals of absolute portability and high performance are
seriously incompatible when it comes to floating-point if
by portability you mean bit-for-bit identity in results.

Robert Dewar

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