On Oct 16, 2006, at 6:33 PM, David Balmain wrote: > Funnily enough the patch reduces the operation to a no-op.
Ah. Makes sense. > I guess I > don't need to worry about endianess here since floats have the same > endianess as integers. I believe that the representation is IEEE 754 both on little-endian chips like the Intels, and big-endian chips like the PowerPC. The sign bit is indeed the "leftmost" bit in that representation, regardless of chip architecture. Where the float-int union technique (which is also used by KinoSearch and CLucene) will fall down is on architectures that don't use IEEE 754, like VAX. Then the encode/decode will get all screwed up. http://www.codeproject.com/tools/libnumber.asp Fortunately, the 0 .. 255 test will fail, so we'll know about the problem when it occurs. Non-IEEE floats are rare, these days, anyhow. POSH doesn't even support 'em. > Great. I'm going to swap out POSH for charminizer in Ferret ASAP. That will be very helpful. We'll see how soon ASAP is. :) > I'll check smoke_test.rb into the base directory > of the Ferret repo when I'm done. Grooves. Marvin Humphrey Rectangular Research http://www.rectangular.com/ _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list Ferret-talk@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
