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On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, John Porter wrote: > Sean O'Rourke wrote: > > NOTE: this may be part of the monster-patch to fix the over-agressive > > string GC (814), but it's much more palatable in this form. > > PerlInt's > > cmp() method was backwards, and would truncate floats on the other > > side of the comparison. > > This patch always uses floating-point, and makes the > > direction consistent with the PDD 2. > > Um, I don't think it's right to *always* do the comparison > floating point. Specifically, if both operands are ints, > the comparison should be int. I thought about this, but all it buys you is a few bits of precision when your ints and floats are both 64-bit, and slower comparisons all the time. IMHO it's a wash, so I did it this way. /s
