11 Oct
2012
11 Oct
'12
5:08 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On 11/10/12 16:45, Greg Ewing wrote:
Are you sure there would be any point in this? People who specifically *want* base-2 floats are probably quite happy with the current float type, and wouldn't appreciate having it slowed down, even by a small amount.
I would gladly give up a small amount of speed for better control over floats, such as whether 1/0.0 raised an exception or returned infinity.
Umm, you would be giving up a *lot* of speed. Native floating point happens right in the processor, so if you want special behavior, you'd have to take the floating point out of the CPU and into "user space". mark