Hi everyone,
Has there been any decision on what to do with mathematical
functionality that's shared across units? I bring this up because while
trying to optimise an internal mathematical routine (ldexp), I
discovered there are two different versions in use - one in the Math
unit and a private one in the System unit - both of which are written
differently.
This makes trying to optimise a version for a specific CPU extremely
difficult or even to just maintain the Pascal code.
I would like to recommend an approach to merge these two versions for
better maintainability and potentially smaller binaries (so only one
version of ldexp is included). What I've discovered so far... if you
include the Math unit, that grants access to its own generic ldexp
routine, while the internal sin and cos routines in the System unit use
their own ldexp subroutine.
Kit
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