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From: Steven Bosscher <stevenb@suse.de>
To: Scott Robert Ladd <coyote@coyotegulch.com>,
	Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
Cc: Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com>, Luchezar Belev <l_belev@yahoo.com>,
	gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: why not consfold sin(const)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 05:18:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409210128.23686.stevenb@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <414F63DC.1000009@coyotegulch.com>

On Tuesday 21 September 2004 01:12, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
> Toon Moene wrote:
> > All functions in <math.h> can set errno for domain and range errors; in
> > other words, those functions are not pure, and cannot be moved out of
> > loops or CSE'd away.
>
> Another reason to write numerical code in a sensible language like Fortran
> 95. ;)
>
> That's not really a flippant remark. How far do we go to force numerical
> performance in C?

Since all languages try to be general purpose nowadays (class
inheritance in Fortran, whee!), probably pretty far!

Gr.
Steven


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-20 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-19 16:02 Luchezar Belev
2004-09-19 18:00 ` Robert Dewar
2004-09-19 19:17   ` Luchezar Belev
2004-09-19 19:31     ` Robert Dewar
2004-09-19 19:55       ` Luchezar Belev
2004-09-19 20:25         ` Robert Dewar
2004-09-19 20:34           ` Luchezar Belev
2004-09-19 20:56             ` Zack Weinberg
2004-09-20  8:15               ` Kai Henningsen
2004-09-19 21:12             ` Robert Dewar
2004-09-19 20:53           ` Timothy J.Wood
2004-09-19 22:41             ` Robert Dewar
2004-09-20  0:31               ` Timothy J.Wood
2004-09-20  4:27                 ` Robert Dewar
2004-09-20  5:44                   ` Dale Johannesen
2004-09-20 19:43       ` Toon Moene
2004-09-20 20:34         ` Kaveh R. Ghazi
2004-09-20 23:31         ` Robert Dewar
2004-09-21  0:13         ` Scott Robert Ladd
2004-09-21  5:18           ` Steven Bosscher [this message]
2004-09-21  5:55             ` Scott Robert Ladd
2004-09-23 11:35 Bradley Lucier
2004-09-23 23:04 ` Toon Moene

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