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Re: *printf: support for 'long double' number output
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Daniel Jacobowitz |
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Re: *printf: support for 'long double' number output |
Date: |
Fri, 18 May 2007 16:28:52 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-09) |
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?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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