Re: [gnugo-devel] floats

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> I notice from various posts, that GNU Go is now using floats in a few
> places.  In the past we'd steered away from using floats because they
> tend to cause platform dependent differences.  Was there a conscious
> decision made that the ease of code maintenance outweighs the benefit
> of identical performance cross-platform?

Floating point arithmetic has been used, for example in
the influence function since 2.7.x or around year 2000.

Dan