Float bug toolkit: what the hash is this?
David N. Smith
dnsmith at watson.ibm.com
Sat Feb 21 21:23:08 UTC 1998
At 16:12 -0500 2/19/98, Mike Klein wrote:
>...SNIP...
>It has been already noted that hashing Floats is a rare occurence,
>so who cares if it's expensive, as long as it's right:
>...SNIP...
There ar two kinds of rare:
* Only a few users of the system ever do it, or
* Everybody does it but it's only a trivial part of the code.
In the former case, performance matters, and to such a user hashing floats
is not a rare occurence.
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