Re: floating point conversions progress

Tom Lord <lord-1tv/[email protected]> Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:59:23 -0800 (PST)

Newsgroups	gmane.lisp.scheme.pika.devel
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    > From: Matthew Dempsky <[email protected]>

    > I tried sending an email to the mailing list the other day with some
    > of the code for cvt_double_to_string, but apparently it didn't get
    > sent.  Since then I've pushed the code into my archive as
    > [email protected]/cvt--devo--0.1.  It's still not perfect, but I
    > rewrote the code to use GMP and now it's about 2.5x the performance of
    > glibc (but like I've said a few times - mine still doesn't do proper
    > formatting for everything). [....]

It will be a few days before I can take a look.   There's a high
priority task in the arch project, just now, to merge in and review
some security features in response to things like the recent troubles
at savannah.

-t