From: Matt Borchers <mattborchers@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Quick inverse square root
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 18:22:51 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4138de3-9d06-437e-a515-db00cff6822fn@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtxo9zuu.fsf@nightsong.com>
On Monday, January 4, 2021 at 4:06:03 PM UTC-5, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Matt Borchers <mattbo...@gmail.com> writes:
> > As I said, I turned a bunch of ugly C into a few lines of pretty Ada
> > for a skeptic.
> You could write the C code similarly to the Ada, using a union. I don't
> know why the C program isn't written that way. Maybe it is very old.
That is a good point Paul. At least Ada can "keep up" and do the low-level things that some C users claims to be best choice and thus the only good choice.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-02 22:26 Quick inverse square root Matt Borchers
2021-01-02 23:18 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-03 10:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-03 22:31 ` Matt Borchers
2021-01-03 23:47 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-04 3:50 ` Matt Borchers
2021-01-04 4:28 ` Matt Borchers
2021-01-04 11:04 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-04 11:13 ` AdaMagica
2021-01-04 11:28 ` AdaMagica
2021-01-04 12:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-04 13:39 ` Egil H H
2021-01-04 20:55 ` Matt Borchers
2021-01-04 21:06 ` Paul Rubin
2021-01-05 2:22 ` Matt Borchers [this message]
2021-01-07 17:49 ` Brian Drummond
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