On 12/8/11 4:47 AM, Don wrote:
The Loitsch paper is very interesting, it presents a simple very fast method which works in 99.5% of cases. Then, you fall back to the simple slow method for the remaining 0.5%. The slow case is rare enough that it's not worth optimizing it.
I think a D implementation starting from Loitsch's paper would be absolutely terrific for Phobos.
I've had these ideas of compile-time function tabulators for a long time, which would made for a great article, but I'm blocked by the inability to format floating-point numbers as strings during compilation.
Andrei
