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From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 09:20:48 -0500
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> 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