Hallo,
On 9/23/09, John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In particular, unless an implementer is willing to provide CLisp-style
> software, immediate floats are a bad idea. They inevitably have fewer
> bits than IEEE, and just chopping those bits to 0 quickly rather than
> properly rounding introduces so much error that the results are useless.
>
Only if by "immediate" you mean embedded in a 32-bit word, or
smaller. The host may have 64-bit words, or a C structure may be used
as in Lua.
--
-alex
http://www.ventonegro.org/
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