Re: small integers, numerical efficiency

[zilla@ccrl.nj.nec.com (John Lewis)]

Sorry about inaccurately paraphrasing you.  Here's what i should have
quoted:

> in agreement there; my reasoning is that if one isn't going to do a serious 
> implementation of floating-point, one shouldn't do a half-baked job, instead 
> one should not even claim to try.

> That's just my own opinion, not Apple's.  But I wonder how other people on 
> this list feel.  I know most people who implement Unix C numerics libraries 
> don't agree with me at all: from what I've heard they evidently think a 
> half-baked job is fine.