On 2018-10-03 11:12, Andrew Dinn wrote: > On 02/10/18 19:17, Martin Buchholz wrote: >> Raffaello and Ulf should talk. >> It seems like Ulf's ryu project is trying to solve the same problem. >> ryu is also still being worked on, but there is already a published paper >> and ryu is being adopted by various core libraries. >> https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu >> https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3192369 >> Ulf, if you haven't already signed an Oracle Contributor Agreement for >> openjdk, you should do so. >> (Who knew printing floating point numbers could be so hard?) > > Well, Guy Steele and Jon L White, for starters (quite literally) [1] >
In my eyes, the clarity of that paper is almost mythical. I wish I could follow their teaching myself. > [1] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=93559 > > regards, > > > Andrew Dinn > ----------- > Senior Principal Software Engineer > Red Hat UK Ltd > Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 03798903 > Directors: Michael Cunningham, Michael ("Mike") O'Neill, Eric Shander >
