Re:Developer inequality and the technical debt crisis
by acqq on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @03:01AM
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The "mess" reflects the fact that choices exist, that is, it is the result of the different goals of the producers of compilers or the processors, not of the mentioned standards. What's not standardized can vary.
Compared to the pre-IEEE754 state, the standard was a real success.
Re the article of the picture you link (0) still unless you're building games, and as long as you're compiling using VC your results haven't changed for more then a decade and a half. New versions of the compilers took care to preserve the results. And even VC 6, produced 1998 luckily selected the constants of intermediate calculations that were most reasonable and matched the ones in SSE2 hardware introduced by Intel in 2001.
Compared to the pre-IEEE754 state, the standard was a real success.
Re the article of the picture you link (0) still unless you're building games, and as long as you're compiling using VC your results haven't changed for more then a decade and a half. New versions of the compilers took care to preserve the results. And even VC 6, produced 1998 luckily selected the constants of intermediate calculations that were most reasonable and matched the ones in SSE2 hardware introduced by Intel in 2001.
0) https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/intermediate-fl...