On 4/5/21 9:08 AM, Alan Bateman wrote: > On 04/04/2021 09:53, Andrew Haley wrote: >> : >> We also have a candidate for a String -> toDouble parser from Raffaello >> Giulietti: >> >> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2018-March/052355.html >> >> As far as I can see there's nothing wrong with it, but it got stuck in >> review. This was a bad failure of our review processes, I'm afraid. I >> wonder if we will do any better with this one. > > Yeah, there was a lengthy discussion about this at the OpenJDK Committer > Workshop just after FOSDEM 2020. Brian Burkhalter and Andrew Dinn had > both put time into looking at the proposal it but the conclusion was > that Raffaello's paper "The Schubfach way to render doubles" needed a > review from from an expert in this area.
I wonder. The implementation has even been proved correct for floats by exhaustion. (Of course that's not possible for doubles.) I submit, therefore, that we could at least use the float version without reasonable fear of breaking something. We seem to be paralysed by this one. > Guy Steele was mentioned but I don't know if he was approached about it. -- Andrew Haley (he/him) Java Platform Lead Engineer Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> https://keybase.io/andrewhaley EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671
