Design Goals/Requirements:
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Good Performance on most processors
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High performance supported
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exact reproducibility supported
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access to IEEE floating point features
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We propose three modes of floating point execution
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strictfp: Reproducible results as in current default
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new default: Exploit natural hardware (extended exponent in Intel and fused multiply add)
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associatefp: Allow conventional compiler optimizations
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Not at all clear that floating point suggestions will be accepted or even considered by Sun?
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Generic Types, Operator Loading and lightweight classes are less controversial?
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