Thanks for mentioning Joe Darcy. He continues to work on the JDK at Oracle and occasionally works on numerics issues. Notable for this discussion, he recently u

Thanks for mentioning Joe Darcy. He continues to work on the JDK at Oracle and occasionally works on numerics issues. Notable for this discussion, he recently updated the Java specifications for JDK 17 to remove non-strict FP semantics (which also entailed removal of the `strictfp` modifier, since the default now is always strict). See JEP 306. [1] [1]: https://openjdk.org/jeps/306 https://openjdk.org/jeps/306