Re: [gnugo-devel] floats

[Trevor Morris]

I was remembering this thread:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnugo-devel/2002-04/msg00160.html
where we spend a fair bit of effort tracking down platform dependencies,
that turned out to be float related.

So, I guess that the approach is to only tackle platform-dependent
differences when/if they occur.  This approach seems to be working fine.

-Trevor


On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:06:48 -0800, address@hidden
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > 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
>