Re: [boost] Re: (boost) Re: A pure C/C++ question

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-22 21:27:12

At Thursday 2002/08/22 10:54, you wrote:
>Victor A. Wagner wrote:
> >
> > I'm one of those weirdos that thinks that "correct" is
> > a lot more important than "fast".
> >
>
>Perhaps in your application domain.  Folk who write,
>e.g., encryption routines would disagree.  They need
>arithmetic to be fast and repeatable (gets the same
>answer every time).  Whether it gets the "correct"
>answer is totally irrelevant.

If you're asserting that the silly math we have in C is because of 
encryption.....
I just don't believe it.

ps. I was "doing encryption" in 1962...how long you been doing it?

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