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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