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Re: IEEE single precision float values
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David Kastrup |
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Re: IEEE single precision float values |
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Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:53:24 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> I came up with the following two functions below. I think they
> are generically useable for network IO and possibly reading
> certain data records from files directly. I am fairly sure
> my version is very bad regarding performance though.
>
> Whether that is a problem depends on what the application is.
> Anyway, if this is generally useful we could install it.
I think this is something that should quite likely rather be done in C
on platforms with IEEE floating point arithmetic. It seems rather
pointless (not to mention bug-prone) to go through all that Elisp when
just typecasting the bit patterns should be enough.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum