Terry> "Kristján V. Jónsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Anyway, Skip noted that 50% of all floats are whole numbers between
>> -10 and 10 inclusive,
Terry> Please, no. He said something like this about
Terry> *non-floating-point applications* (evidence unspecified, that I
Terry> remember). But such applications, by definition, usually don't
Terry> have enough floats for caching (or conversion time) to matter too
Terry> much.
Correct. The non-floating-point application I chose was the one that was
most immediately available, "make test". Note that I have no proof that
regrtest.py isn't terribly floating point intensive. I just sort of guessed
that it was.
Skip
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