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cc'd to nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:27:39PM -0800, Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> wrote: > I do not know whether the fact that an operation is an order of magnitude > slower than it must be should be considered a bug... > > This patch speeds up rounding-to-integer (which is "%.0f") about 15x, > and g-format sprintf() about 1.5x. Note that g-formats of the form > %.<digits>g are now routed through Gconvert(). Do not know whether > there are versions fo Gconvert() which are good enough for NV-to-PV > conversion, but not good enough for sprintf() emulation. If there > are, this routing should be made optional. One area I know Configure doesn't test prospective Gconvert for is inf/nan handling. Wouldn't surprise me if some gcvt's don't do that where sprintf does, but as you say that's already an existing issue for NV-to-PV conversion.Thread Previous | Thread Next