On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 2:16 AM, John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alex Shinn scripsit: > > > The standard is silent on whether or not this is allowed for > > make-rectangular, but note in Chibi the value -0.0 is only supported > > as a place holder and in the future will be removed in favor of not > > underflowing. > > This will have to include removing +inf.0/-inf.0 in favor of not > overflowing as well, of course. Yes, the intention is to catch overflow as well, though infinity is a useful numerical concept and I have no intention to remove those values. > I admit you'd have to be daft to do > scientific work in Chibi without muscular C libraries attached (in the > style of Python), but perhaps there are others who like the delicate yet > performant compromise of IEEE binary representation, so I hope this will > still be a configure-time option. > I think any slow-down is better than giving the wrong answer, but you will be unlikely to notice a significant drop in performance. -- Alex
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