[Ron]
One of the major new features in the area of code generation for the upcoming Whidbey release of VC++ is our new floating point code generation model. One of the members of my team, Eric Fleegal, has written a nice white paper about this feature for MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/floapoint.asp