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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (13 children)

As a programmer who grew up without a FPU (Archimedes/Acorn), I have never liked float. But I thought this war had been lost a long time ago. Floats are everywhere. I've not done graphics for a bit, but I never saw a graphics card that took any form of fixed point. All geometry you load in is in floats. The shaders all work in floats.

Briefly ARM MCU work was non-float, but loads of those have float support now.

I mean you can tell good low level programmers because of how they feel about floats. But the battle does seam lost. There is lots of bit of technology that has taken turns I don't like. Sometimes the market/bazaar has spoken and it's wrong, but you still have to grudgingly go with it or everything is too difficult.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'd have to boulder check, but I think old handheld consoles like the Gameboy or the DS use fixed-point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I'm pretty sure they do, but the key word there is "old".

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