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by recursivecaveat 376 days ago
Yeah that is the killer for me. I'm not particularly attached to IEEE semantics. Unfortunately the replacement is that your results can change between any two compiles, for nearly any reason. Even if you think you don't care about tiny precision variances: consider that if you ever score and rank things with an algorithm that involves floats, the resulting order can change.