On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Liyang Hu wrote: > > From a bit of browsing the code, it appears that setting > > USE_DOUBLE_PRECISION will increase the precision of both Float > > and Double types.
Note that I'd recommend getting some clarification about this from either the current hugs team or Mark Jones (who are probably reading this list), as I can vaguely recall a couple of times over the last few years where Mark Jone has said `Hugs should not be used for serious numerical work' without saying whether this is fixed just by that #define. I could imagine that there might be several other, deeper assumptions about using float's for both Float and Double in the source, e.g., if you pass a double to a Prelude math fn it does get passed in directly to an appropriate one and not cast to a float before being passed, etc. Hopefully there aren't any problems like this, but the worst thing would be to end up in the worst of both worlds where you pay the storage space for doubles and yet don't _reliably_ get more than float precision. ___cheers,_dave_________________________________________________________ www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~tweed/|`...heat generated by its microprocessors will email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]|slope upward exponentially, reaching the power work tel:(0117) 954-5250 |density of a nuclear reactor before 2010'-Intel _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
