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Re: Dump float support?
- To: Mikael Djurfeldt <djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se>
- Subject: Re: Dump float support?
- From: Michael Livshin <mlivshin at bigfoot dot com>
- Date: 13 Mar 2000 17:23:14 +0200
- Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, Greg dot Harvey at thezone dot net, mlivshin at bigfoot dot com, mjs at eazel dot com, jimb at red-bean dot com
- Organization: who? me?
- References: <E12UWVe-0006CK-00@mdj.nada.kth.se>
Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se> writes:
> reorganization will be a lot simpler if
> we can begin with deleting all code having to do with floats.
>
> The motivation is this:
>
> Having to deal with both floats and doubles makes the code more
> complex. The old reason for computing with floats, that they could be
> stored in a single cell, is no longer valid, since also doubles now
> will be stored in a single cell.
>
> OK, or objections?
as I understand, at least one reason for keeping floats is that on
Alpha (and maybe other 64bit archs) they can be immediate.
I'm not sure whether I'm talking nonsense or not right now, though.
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