Post #2797257

2026-04-14 22:02 UTC

@Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place @zeux@mastodon.gamedev.place @lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place at this point, #3 is functionally dead, and most things that used to be in category #1 by now have moved to #2, i.e. FMAs used to be a "depends on the platform" thing and are now almost everywhere. The side effect being that a thing that used to show up on ports to a different platform (i.e. going non-FMA FMA targets) is now something that is showing up within targets, and the numerical env in general is much more homogeneous.

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@rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-14 22:04

@Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place @zeux@mastodon.gamedev.place @lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place My point being, legislating any particular evaluation strategy was wholly impractical until at least the 2010s or so. At this point it would be a lot more reasonable. It's just that we have a path-dependency where both the compiler options and the standards come from a world where insisting that things be nailed down in a particular way was simply impractical, and what compiler support there is for turning this off is also what used to be a total niche feature.

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