[Haskell-cafe] floating point conversion

[Carter Schonwald]

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> I won't be at ICFP, but would like to put in a reminder about
> the shabbiness of GHC floating-point output conversion. When I
> raised this issue once before, I got the surprising reaction
> that speed was more important than accuracy.
>

@doug: could you point me to the issue ?

i'm actually allocating some of my time over the next year to improving
floating point matters in ghc and the standard, and specific issues you can
point me to that you've previously articulated would be super helpful :)



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