On 10/10/07, Patrick Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 10/11/07, Neal Gafter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > My pet peeve is arithmetic.  In the JVM, you either get efficiency and
>
> Neal
>
> Would the work from the Java Grande group apply, or is there other
> relevant research?

I'm not aware of any work on improving the performance/correctness
tradeoff of integral arithmetic on the Java platform. If you're
generating byte-code for the Java VM, you have to choose between good
performance but limited precision with silent overflow or poor
performance but flexible precision. The general problem was "solved"
long ago, including in the StrongTalk system that was a predecessor to
HotSpot. Unfortunately those results have not been applied to the Java
platform.

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