Hello nicolas

On Sep 22, 2011, at 12:17 AM, Nicolas Cellier wrote:

> It's too long for a mail, but all explained here:
> http://smallissimo.blogspot.com/2011/09/clarifying-and-optimizing.html
> 
> Optimizing such kernel message is important - for example when reading
> a file of floats...
> Which version do you prefer ?
> Shall comments be that long ?

YESSSSS :)
We love good comments!
And comments should be close to the code else they rot.
There is no problem having long nd precise comments that empower the reader.


> Any other opinion ?

One important question is what is the impact of the hardware dirven solution on 
bit identical computation 
on different machine. I would do the following:
        use the smalltalk - bit identical idea all the times
        provide one methods for people knowing that they want to get faster but 
potentially different floats on different platform.

Does it make sense?

Stef


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> Nicolas
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