[Vm-dev] Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Float hierarchy for 64-bit Spur

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 28.11.2014, at 01:24, Andres Valloud <avalloud at smalltalk.comcastbiz.net> wrote:
> 
> "Float" is also the name of an IEEE entity in a multitude of languages other than ours... if we needed to implement single precision floating point numbers, generally called "float", where would that fit?
> 
> On 11/21/14 10:08 , Eliot Miranda wrote:
>> Good.  I think I'll go with
>> 
>> Float
>>   |
>>   +------- BoxedDouble
>>   |
>>   +------- SmallDouble

Hi Andres,

you missed the decision: We're going with BoxedFloat64 and SmallFloat64 now.

- Bert -


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