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From: "Steve Sabram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: Getting "60.05" not to print "6.005000e01"!!!!
> > I'd like my users to see "60.05", it's not asking that much is it?
>
> That is not much for your users but way too much for Palm. Floating point
management routines can eat up CPU and memory like you
> wouldn't believe.
I disagree, they ended up with that every serious program now is having
extra fat for floating point operations.
I got 6 different programs on my palm 2 of them share MathLib (good thing)
and 4 using their own floating point routines.
Where is gain in space or usability ???
That was not wise from Palm not to include good math built-in in OS. (I
understand they wanted to be first on the market, but
Palm is now at least 2 y/o)
You probably talking about microcontroller type of OSes, they usually
operate within closed environment and not meant
to run thousands of different applications, developed by different
developers with different skill level. And again usually you can get
floating point routines from MCU suppliers if you need ones.
> This is why all of the early PC's had separate math coprocessors with each
development environment shipping
> separate libraries for different floating point types.
That was bad thing. I remember how I struggled too.
> >
> > First, I'm amazed their isn't a standard library for handling this in
the Palm.
>
> Get out of the PC / desktop mindset. You are no longer in Kansas anymore.
>
> I'll quote it again, "The only thing worse than a user expecting a Palm to
act like a Pentium PC is a Palm developer expecting the
> compatibility of a Sun Workstation."
>
> And another quote, "It's only a 16 MHz, 68K machine!"
>
Wait couple more years. (Who needs 640K ?:))
Regards,
-Alex
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