It's true, we don't have a 32 bit float. In practice, I don't think that most people have suffered too heavily from the omission, since floating point data isn't as common.
I think that in practice it would be very hard to add a new fundamental datatype to Thrift because there are so many languages and protocols that would have to be updated accordingly. -Bryan On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Gautam Thaker <gtha...@verizon.net> wrote: > I am reading/running/modifying the tutorial as a way to understand > thrift. I noticed that thrift only seems to support a 64 bit float > value, and not a 32 bit float value. There are times when 32 bit values > would be a better choice. > > Is this hard to add? > > Gautam >
