Question about Runtime relevant Java JEP.
A Z
poweruserm at live.com.au
Tue May 8 01:42:25 UTC 2018
I was asking to know when JEP 306 will shift to 'targeted',
or what thought and movements in this direction there are.
It was mentioned elsewhere that this is only relevant to x86
older processors, but this is not true. Implementation
of JEP 306 will eliminate arithmetic overflow and underflow
via arithmetic, within-range arithmetic upon double and float,
a change which is relevant to everyone.
It would also ameliorate "naive" implementation of Java libraries.
An example is the remaining underflow and overflow still possible with
javax.vecmath.Vector3d.cross
given the nature of the sourcecode on this method, and anything
else similar.
?
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