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I've written C almost every day at work for ~7 years, and I have maybe written the keyword 'float' half a dozen times. I do embedded and systems development -
by rkangel 11y ago
I've written C almost every day at work for ~7 years, and I have maybe written the keyword 'float' half a dozen times.
I do embedded and systems development - you never need floating point in that sort of environment. It's only when you get into application domains that you need it.
- stephencanon 11y agoThere are a number of architectures where you leave half of the performance of little things like memset and memcpy on the table without SIMD. as a footnote: everytime in my career that someone has said "you never need floating point in X [kernel/network stack/some embedded thing/boot/whatever]," they've come back within a year to ask for my help with floating point library routines for X. So now you've cursed yourself =)
- com2kid 11y agoAs an embedded developer let me say that the Cortex M4s with FPUs are worth their weight in gold for saving me from debugging fixed point libraries.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoI never ever ever want to write fixed point numerics again.