On Saturday, 18 October 2014 at 15:17:09 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

No need to implement it. http://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html#.sum


It isn't accurate. Python's fsum is around 100 lines of c-code and AFAIK based on this algorithm:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/papers/robustr.pdf

more:

https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/7c183c782401/Modules/mathmodule.c#l1063

http://www-pequan.lip6.fr/~graillat/papers/rr2005-03.pdf

But I think an integer version is faster on a large dataset.

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