Hello nicolas On Sep 22, 2011, at 12:17 AM, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
It's too long for a mail, but all explained here: http://smallissimo.blogspot.com/2011/09/clarifying-and-optimizing.html
Optimizing such kernel message is important - for example when reading a file of floats... Which version do you prefer ? Shall comments be that long ?
YESSSSS :) We love good comments! And comments should be close to the code else they rot. There is no problem having long nd precise comments that empower the reader.
Any other opinion ?
One important question is what is the impact of the hardware dirven solution on bit identical computation on different machine. I would do the following: use the smalltalk - bit identical idea all the times provide one methods for people knowing that they want to get faster but potentially different floats on different platform. Does it make sense? Stef
Nicolas