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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | sejourne_kevin <sejourne_kevin@y...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] float precision on AMD64 |
Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote :
> [..] For floating point, I
> suspect that any reasonably fast way of handling a tag bit would
> interfere with rounding.
>
Do you want to say that one small logical operation (' and ' or '
shift') after the evaluation of an expression ' float ' will be slower
than the management of it box?
Kévin.