Re: freeze for sbcl-2.6.0

Stas Boukarev <[email protected]> writes:

> I'm not sure anymore about the (expt x constant) transforms to floats.
> They produce different values from pow(). GCC and clang only convert
> pow(d, 2) to d*d. Unless -ffast-math. The same goes for converting to
> sqrt.
> So I think all these should be hidden behind float-accuracy = 0.
> But I made a change for the out of line expt to call sqrt for 1/2,
> which is both faster and consistent with the inline version.
> Maybe it should be reverted so that things don't swing back and forth
> across multiple releases?

Thanks.  I saw the commits this evening -- are you finished?  Does NEWS
reflect what's currently in the tree now?  (I expect to release some
time tomorrow, in 12-18 hours from sending this message).

Thanks,

Christophe