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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: Floating-point constant folding in Emacs byte compiler |
Date: | Thu, 22 Mar 2018 21:26:00 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> These discrepancies mean that .elc files containing floating-point constants > might not be platform-independent, in that byte-compiling a file on one > machine X and running it on another machine Y can yield different results > than byte-compiling and running the same file on Y. Is this sort of > discrepancy intended? I'm pretty sure those runtime differences are not on-purpose, so whether they show up at run-time or compile-time doesn't matter. IOW we can keep optimizing those. Stefan
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