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Re: why not consfold sin(const)
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 01:12, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
> Toon Moene wrote:
> > All functions in <math.h> can set errno for domain and range errors; in
> > other words, those functions are not pure, and cannot be moved out of
> > loops or CSE'd away.
>
> Another reason to write numerical code in a sensible language like Fortran
> 95. ;)
>
> That's not really a flippant remark. How far do we go to force numerical
> performance in C?
Since all languages try to be general purpose nowadays (class
inheritance in Fortran, whee!), probably pretty far!
Gr.
Steven