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 FMA)
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associatefp: Allow conventional compiler optimizations
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Sun willingly to consider some version of this starting with ability to use FMA
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Generic Types, Operator Overloading and lightweight classes are also serious possibilities for thoughtful additions to Java language
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Working with internal Sun staff on drafting modest proposals (as of March 11 meeting in Palo Alto)
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