Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I came up with the following two functions below. I think they > are generically useable for network IO and possibly reading > certain data records from files directly. I am fairly sure > my version is very bad regarding performance though. > > Whether that is a problem depends on what the application is. > Anyway, if this is generally useful we could install it.
I think this is something that should quite likely rather be done in C on platforms with IEEE floating point arithmetic. It seems rather pointless (not to mention bug-prone) to go through all that Elisp when just typecasting the bit patterns should be enough. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
