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Please clarify Re: Motion M0041 NO



Vincent,

Does this mean that, if the changes you mention are made, you
will vote "yes?"

Baker


On 01/24/2013 09:40 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
I vote NO on Motion 41.

In §2.1, 3rd line, it seems to be only about "continuous problems",
while the main theorem, the FTIA, is not about continuity.

In §2.5 (Decorations):

* "The IEEE 754 model of global flags" -> These are not global flags,
   but status flags. They don't have to be global.

* I would remove "in an era of massively parallel processing".
   Many users don't use such systems. This would make the standard
   more targeted at some users, which is bad.

* "tagged with a few bits" is about Level 4. This should be rephrased
   to be encoding-independent (e.g. in some languages, the concept of
   bits may be non-existent).

* About the 17-byte problem: it should be made clear that this
   is just an example (perhaps the most common case, but still an
   example). Also, one could still think that vector systems may
   be able to pack their data efficiently (e.g. in a vector, by
   grouping the decorations).

Editorial:

In §2.2, 1st line, "IEEE" is missing before "754-2008".

In various places, "level(s)" should be changed to "Level(s)".



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