MTocci - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I'd just avoid it (Score 1) 359

by MTocci on Monday May 03, 2010 @08:52PM (#32080098) Attached to: What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

I'm pretty sure that one of us has never done any actual scientific computing.

Wait, you're saying that floating point calculations aren't used in actual scientific computing? What are you defining as scientific computing? Does CFD count for you? I've never heard of any CFD code written using only fixed-point data.

Comment Re:Nonsene. (Score 1) 171

by MTocci on Sunday January 04, 2009 @09:54PM (#26325063) Attached to: Balancing Performance and Convention

Have you seen this site,

http://bruscy.republika.pl/pages/przemek/java_not_really_faster_than_cpp.html

This guy made a few tweaks to the C++ code (and documents them) and finds that C++ is about 2 - 3 times as fast as Java.

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