Re: [IDL] merge float and double

• From: Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.org>
• Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:19:57 +0200
• To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
• CC: public-script-coord@w3.org
• Message-ID: <4FED652D.5020505@mozilla.org>

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> It has come up a few times but never as a serious suggestion. Should
> we just go ahead and have only one of float/double as that matches
> JavaScript better? I think most specifications use double anyway.

This is too rear-view mirror and technically blind to hardware economics 
(reflected in C's history). GPUs need float, JS is programming GPUs, we 
have typed arrays of floats. Do not equate float with double.

/be

Received on Friday, 29 June 2012 08:20:37 UTC