Re: Why don't we switch to C like floating pointed arithmetic instead of automatic expansion to reals?

[Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 6 August 2016 at 21:56:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 8/6/2016 1:06 PM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote:
Some applications requires exactly the same results for 
different architectures
(probably because business requirement). So this optimization 
is turned off by
default in LDC for example.

Let me rephrase the question - how does fusing them alter the 
result?

The result became more precise, because single rounding instead 
of two.