Yes, I just felt that closed the discussion.
I only brought up the issue in the first place because I worried about the
performance impact. And I was unhappy about how that worry was dismissed
as being less important than some specious "correctness" issue (for the
last 3+ years, performance has mattered a _lot_, and the claimed big
"correctness" issue has not mattered one whit).
The thing is, sometimes "pi = 3.14" is (a) infinitely faster than the
"correct" answer and (b) the difference between the "correct" and the
"wrong" answer is meaningless. And this is why I get upset when somebody
dismisses performance issues based on "correctness".
The thing is, some specious value of "correctness" is often irrelevant
because it doesn't matter. While performance almost _always_ matters. And
I absolutely _detest_ the fact that people so often dismiss performance
concerns so readily.
But once the performance numbers are in and they don't show any issues, I
think that simply settles the original query, and I'm happy.
Linus
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