rofluto

> this was a dumb thing to do.

Spoken like someone who never had to implement multi precision library. Thankfully Sun's idea won, the 80bit shape shifting to 64 bit upon register spill is a distant past, all modern processors implement fully deterministic +-*/ float64 ops, which allows sane and portable libraries for quadfloats, multi precision, interval arithmetic and the like

Sun wanted the jvm to "replicate exactly" between machines so they chopped off the precision of all intermediate operations to 64 or 32 (double/single) which infuriated kahan