benchmarking Poly/ML & floating point

[Stephen Weeks]

> > I don't think I actually need inline assembler for Real_equal, I just need a
> > procedure call boundary.  Does the following seem OK?
> > 
> > Int Real_equal(Double x1, Double x2) {
> > 	return x1 == x2;
> > }
> > 
> > It used to be
> > 
> > #define Real_equal(x1,x2) ((x1) == (x2))
> 
> Yes, I think that's true.  But I'd still like to use the inline assembly
> for the native backend, assuming I can determine the right tests for all
> the operators.

Sure.  No problem.  Real_equal will still be a primitive, not an ffi.