Greetings! Raymond Toy <[email protected]> writes:
>>>>>> "Camm" == Camm Maguire <[email protected]> writes: > > Camm> Greetings! > Camm> "Stewart W. Wilson" <[email protected]> writes: > > >> The fix does not seem to be exactly trivial. Please see the attached > >> paper by Steele and White from 1990. > >> > > Camm> Thanks so much for this reference! > > Camm> Unfortunately, using up to forty 32bit words in bignum arithmetic to > Camm> print out floats looks prohibitively expensive, although the > algorithm > Camm> does appear to work nicely, at least when coded in lisp. > > FWIW, cmucl has a lisp implementation of Dybvig's float printer. > Perhaps that will work for you? > It might very well. But is there anything objectionable to a loop over strtod when printing? Even in corner cases, it appears very fast. Take care, > Ray > > > _______________________________________________ > Gcl-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel > > > > -- Camm Maguire [email protected] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
