> this was a dumb thing to do. Spoken like someone who never had to implement multi precision library. Thankfully Sun's idea won, the 80bit shape shifting to 64 bit upon register spill is a distant past, all modern…
Sun wanted the jvm to "replicate exactly" between machines so they chopped off the precision of all intermediate operations to 64 or 32 (double/single) which infuriated kahan
> this was a dumb thing to do. Spoken like someone who never had to implement multi precision library. Thankfully Sun's idea won, the 80bit shape shifting to 64 bit upon register spill is a distant past, all modern…
Sun wanted the jvm to "replicate exactly" between machines so they chopped off the precision of all intermediate operations to 64 or 32 (double/single) which infuriated kahan