On 30/07/10 18:25, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 07/30/10 05:06, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> Perhaps since strtold() is so heavy weight anyway, >> we could strip commas first? > > Yes, that's easily doable; I'll look into that soon. > > By the way, my ulterior motive for doing this patch is > to fix up the rat's nest of code buried deeply inside > the core comparison operations. In particular, compare() > is deliberately called on the same line, only for debugging > purposes: this is deeply weird and inhibits some further > optimizations that I have in mind.
Heh, and there was me thinking it was an elegant way to ensure none of the comparison operations were shortcuted while minimizing testing of the debug flag :) > Fixing this is also > on my list of things to do, but I'll put the strtold stuff > higher up than that. great thanks! Pádraig.
