Re: Floating-point constant folding in Emacs byte compiler

[Stefan Monnier]

> These discrepancies mean that .elc files containing floating-point constants
> might not be platform-independent, in that byte-compiling a file on one
> machine X and running it on another machine Y can yield different results
> than byte-compiling and running the same file on Y. Is this sort of
> discrepancy intended?

I'm pretty sure those runtime differences are not on-purpose, so whether
they show up at run-time or compile-time doesn't matter.
IOW we can keep optimizing those.


        Stefan