On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 10:23:45PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > > Shouldn't you at least write in the documentation that the conversion > > may be unusably slow? I know I wouldn't use this in GDB with user > > input if it might take all year; that's hardly more useful. > > I wouldn't say that is it "unusably slow". In the cases of a small mantissa > and small execution time it is at most ca. 10 times slower as glibc, and in > the cases where really much time can be consumed, it is hardly slower than > glibc:
I must have misunderstood you. When is it O(N*2) - only with high precision? -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
