Re: PROFESSIONAL floating-point algorithms.

From: Ben Pfaff (blp_at_cs.stanford.edu)
Date: 01/04/04 

Date: 04 Jan 2004 11:33:02 -0800

spinoza1111@yahoo.com (Edward G. Nilges) writes:

> Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote in message news:<87hdzc7qx1.fsf@pfaff.stanford.edu>...
> > "Arthur J. O'Dwyer" <ajo@nospam.andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> >
> > > On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Charles Douglas Wehner wrote:
> > > > http://www.wehner.org/fpoint/
> > >
> > > Ow! My eyes!
> >
> > Looks okay to me. 'Course, I used a text-based browser to view
> > it.
>
>
> Like your sig because I saw it long ago:
>
> "Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
> --D. E. Knuth, "Structured Programming with go to Statements"
>
> This applies of course to strlen() flames, doesn't it.

Uh oh! Look who I stirred up... 

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