[Haskell-beginners] Most C++ compilers will not optimize x^2.0 as x*x but instead will do an expensive ...

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Thu May 24 04:13:33 CEST 2012


On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:47 PM, KC <kc1956 at gmail.com> wrote:

> exponentiation and logarithm.
> So, I believe this C++ versus Haskell versus (your language of choice) is
> a Penn & Teller misdirection.
> Whereas, another level of indirection solves everything.
>

Is it me or is this style of message — content broken between subject and
body, no reference information tying it to the presumed topic (or possibly
a /non sequitur/) — better suited to Twitter than a mailing list?

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