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From: David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] floating point
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Date: Mon,  9 Feb 2004 21:06:04 -0500
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It's not messy, just inefficient.  Everything is done by calls to routines that
take an operator and operands and then call more routines to do the work.  It
would be nice if adds and subtracts and shifts are done inline and only mul/div
is done the hard way.