Tim Hochberg wrote:
> I've been told that operations on NANs are slow because they aren't
> always implemented in the FPU hardware. Instead they are trapped and
> implemented software or firmware or something or other.
which still doesn't make sense -- doesn't ANY operation with a NaN
return NaN? how hard could that be?
I share in the disappointment that NaN's are not first class citizens in
common hardware....
-Chris
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