Re: Use of C99 extra long double math functions after r236148

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:16:03PM -0700, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 1 June 2012 17:03, Peter Jeremy <peter_at_rulingia.com> wrote:
> > On 2012-Jun-01 10:29:13 -0400, John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>On Friday, June 01, 2012 1:55:10 am Eitan Adler wrote:
> >>> Also, are there BSD licensed naive implementations of these functions
> >>> we can use? Would it be okay to has slow, but accurate versions of
> >>> these functions as a stopgap?
> >>
> >>Peter Jeremy more or less has a stopgap already ready judging by the comments
> >>in the thread thus far.
> >
> > There's probably an hours work by either stephen_at_ or myself to adapt
> > the work I did on cephes in Sage to a standalone FreeBSD port.
> > Unfortunately, both stephen_at_ & I are currently otherwise occupied and
> > other comments in this thread suggest that the inclusion of such a port
> > would be strongly opposed.
> >
> > Note that cephes isn't "slow but accurate" - it's reasonably fast but
> > naive and therefore dodgy in edge cases.
> 
> Yes, I was asking if any of the former type exist.
> Optimally we would want fast and accurate - but it doesn't currently exist.
> Fast, but inaccurate has been strongly objected to.
> 
> Is there third option?
> 

Of course.  Sit down and write code.

-- 
Steve