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Re: [gnugo-devel] floats
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Gunnar Farnebäck |
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Re: [gnugo-devel] floats |
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Thu, 20 Jan 2005 02:21:05 +0100 |
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Trevor 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?
Perhaps a bit redundant by now but to clarify: The only significant
change in the use of floats anytime recently is that we stopped using
them in the connection reading.
/Gunnar