I think the important point to keep in mind here is that we need to move
forward to sound specs based on commercial implementation. The burden is
on those who "understand" the proposals + trac + RI to translate them
into implementation and spec for others to evaluate. This is a short
step forward f
Brendan Eich wrote:
> Thanks for understanding. Now with that in mind, please re-read Jeff's
> post and mine. We are talking about working intensively in the next
> three months on both specs and implementation. Now is the time to step
> up. Apple was /hors de combat/ for a long time in Ecma TC3
On Feb 25, 2008, at 2:15 AM, Mike Cowlishaw wrote:
> Pentium basic arithmetic operations take from 1 cycle (pipelined add,
> rarely achieved in practice) up to 39 cycles (divide). The figures
> at the
> URL above for decimal FP software are worst-cases (for example, for
> Add, a
> full-lengt
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 10:15 +, Mike Cowlishaw wrote:
> Currency calculations are not very interesting at all :-). But
> (outside HPC and specialized processors such as graphics cards) they
> are by far the most common.
Surely the Adobe fellows have something to say about this :). Flash
tweeni
Hi,
Maciej Stachowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 21/02/2008 16:14:22:
> On Feb 21, 2008, at 2:46 AM, Mike Cowlishaw wrote:
>
> > Maciej wrote on Wed Feb 20 14:28:33 PST 2008:
> >
> >> Besides compatibility issues, this would be a significant performance
> >> regression for math-heavy code. I w
