Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BigInt and BigFloat are both pure perl, and as such their speed leaves a
*lot* to be desired. Fixing that (at least yanking some of it to XS) has
been on my ToDo list for a while, but other stuff keeps getting in the
way... :)
My own "evolutionary" view
At 12:56 PM 12/29/00 +, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Strings can be of three types--binary data, platform native, and UTF-32.
No, we are not messing around with UTF-8 or 16, nor are we messing with
EBCDIC, shift-JIS, or any of that stuff.
I don't
At 01:05 PM 12/29/00 +, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm reasonably certain that all platforms that perl will ultimately run on
can muster hardware support for 16-bit integers.
Hmm, most modern RISCs are very bad at C-like 16-bit arithmetic - they have
a
At 01:15 PM 12/29/00 +, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BigInt and BigFloat are both pure perl, and as such their speed leaves a
*lot* to be desired. Fixing that (at least yanking some of it to XS) has
been on my ToDo list for a while, but other stuff keeps
The current thread about bigints and overflows and stuff has given me
a thought:
A few of the bits in the flags word of an SV should be reserved as
part of the payload (as opposed to being generic SV flags), so a particular
SV type can make whatever internal use it likes of them. Ie the
payload
At 04:31 PM 12/29/00 +, David Mitchell wrote:
The current thread about bigints and overflows and stuff has given me
a thought:
A few of the bits in the flags word of an SV should be reserved as
part of the payload (as opposed to being generic SV flags), so a particular
SV type can make
"DS" == Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DS Anyone know of a good bigint/bigfloat library whose terms are such
DS that we can just snag the source and use it in perl? I don't
DS really care to write the code for division, let alone the
DS transcendental math ops...
well, people
"David L. Nicol" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes) writes:
$srt =~ tr/0-9a-z\xe9/a-jA-ZE/; # uc sort nums after letters
`10' is going to sort before `2' with that rule. Having done the whole
bitter
Piers Cawley wrote:
"David L. Nicol" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
After reading Cawley's
method, I wondered if using it we could make radix-sorts the
default sort method.
Er... the point behind changing numbers to binary strings was
emphatically not so that they could be sorted by a
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 05:31:29AM +, David L. Nicol wrote:
Piers Cawley wrote:
"David L. Nicol" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
After reading Cawley's
method, I wondered if using it we could make radix-sorts the
default sort method.
Er... the point behind changing numbers to
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