> My conclusions,
> - 0.7 and 0.9 fix return the correct time now, 0.9 fix can't do necessary
> time arithmetic
> - Ruby Time.to_f is broken in all 3 versions
> - Bignum.to_f is broken in all 3 versions
> - I believe the to_f method is behind all of these problems but i haven't had
> time to find the problem nor
> a solution.
Your problems with #to_f are due to the fact that 32-bit MacRuby stores floats
in 30 bits (MRI stores them in objects in 64 bits, 64-bit MacRuby stores them
in 62 bits). The reason is mainly speed related (and we also don't have to
garbage-collect them). At some time I think we had 32-bit mode using objects
for storing them like MRI, and 64-bit mode using 62 bits but we decided to
handle them the same way in both modes to have less code to maintain.
Seeing that very few people using 32-bit (and we will probably stop
"supporting" it after 0.9), you will never get the precision you want from
them. What you can do with MacRuby's current state though:
- if you don't need sub-second precision, use #to_i and do computations in
integers (you can us Time.at to bring them back in Time instances),
- if you really need sub-second prevision, you would have to use BigDecimal. To
convert a Time into BigDecimal: BigDecimal.new("%d.%06d" % [time.tv_sec,
time.tv_usec]). To convert a BigDecimal back to time: Time.at(bd.to_i, (bd *
1000000).to_i % 1000000)
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