In article <456A0B9E.14964.762184@twegner.swbell.net>, "Tim Wegner" <twegner@swbell.net> writes:
Rich asked:
Is there still some benefit to running L_MATH and M_MATH routines on a modern processor?
I don't think so. [...]
That's what I thought too.
In my opinion (other's may disagree) we could ditch all integer math in your version. It's far more important to have have as much functionality as possible working the supported math types than to have all the math types working.
So how would we handle fractal types that are implemented only in L_MATH or M_MATH? I think that's the main reason why xfractint is missing so much stuf. If you look at all the stuff that's #ifdef'ed out, its all stuff using L_MATH or M_MATH (which seems to depend on L_MATH!). I'll have a look at the xfractint-float only code and see how it deals with this.
But as with any open source project, he who is willing to do the work gets to decide.
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