On 09/16/10 12:40, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 09/15/2010 09:31 PM, Jes Sorensen wrote: >> Floating point is just plain wrong. > > Why? If command-line processing becomes too slow, you can always buy a > math co-processor. >
Because it's imprecise anyway and requires dealing with fp regs. Besides, most users will probably hit their shell command line limit before hitting the problem with the decimals. Jes
