On 8/11/2012 11:04 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Saturday, 11 August 2012 at 16:12:14 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
You missed the native efficiency part :-)
You mean like the Common Lisp compilers that are able to beat FORTRAN compilers
in floating point computations?
Floating point code is a rather specialized subset of what a good native
compiler can do.
For example, with Java, doing well with floating point has no relevance to the
lack of user defined value types in Java, and the lack of efficiency that entails.
