Adam Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've taken a first look at Parrot and I'm very impressed. I'd like to > perform some micro-benchmarking of double floating point code. I have the > latest CVS version of parrot. I've compiled it upon Debian unstable x86 > with the: > > perl Configure.pl --floatval=double > > option. Yet the Leibniz summation for PI <http://www.parrotcode.org/examples/> > still appears to be performing its calculations using single floats and > continues to print 3.141591.
Parrot usually uses double as its floating-point type. The problem is probably with the precision of 'print N0'; try using the 'sprintf' opcode and printing the resulting string instead. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perl and Parrot hacker There is no cabal.
