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