From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] p9/linux/fbsd compiler shootout
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 09:20:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <807a8afd7bb1bf60ebcafe1adb3004b1@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
> Rob, can you say more about what 8c's shortcomings are in
> floating point?
Ken just didn't spend much time on it. A fair bit of effort was spent
on integer code for most of the architectures, including x86. When
you have finite time (unlike the GCC people, who have infinite people
and forever to work on it, 8c was a one-man operation) you choose
where to spend it.
-rob
next reply other threads:[~2002-02-26 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-26 14:20 rob pike [this message]
2002-02-26 16:07 ` Sean Quinlan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-26 15:02 andrey mirtchovski
2002-02-26 16:02 ` Wilhelm B. Kloke
2002-02-26 18:00 ` splite
2002-02-26 16:04 ` Matt H
2002-03-04 10:04 ` Gaute B Strokkenes
2002-02-26 14:18 rob pike
2002-02-26 11:15 forsyth
2002-02-26 3:10 rob pike
2002-02-26 10:26 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-26 3:05 andrey mirtchovski
2002-02-26 10:27 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-26 10:27 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
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