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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: Newbie Q
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:24:45 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2005-09-21T17:24:45+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dgs50t$5e8$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.09.20.11.55.20.767425@linuxchip.demon.co.uk.uk.uk>

Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:
> (what is the rationale for delta /= small?)

I think of it as:

'delta' is the programmers minimum requirement in the problem space
'small' is the compilers implementation of that in the solution space

Cheers

-- Martin





  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-21 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-20  1:11 Newbie Q Larry Luther
2005-09-20  4:09 ` Jim Rogers
2005-09-20  5:48   ` Martin Dowie
2005-09-20 11:52   ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2005-09-20 13:33     ` Martin Dowie
2005-09-21 17:24     ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2005-09-20  4:09 ` Samuel Tardieu
2005-09-20  5:52   ` Simon Wright
2005-09-20  6:28     ` Samuel Tardieu
2005-09-20 16:26   ` Martin Krischik
2005-09-21  7:27     ` Samuel Tardieu
2005-09-20  7:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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