22 Feb
2015
22 Feb
'15
11:41 p.m.
On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 15:52 -0700, Mike Frazier wrote:
Did the DOS version change to use long doubles or was it just the Xfractint version?
The intention was that the long double changes only affect the Xfractint formula parser. This is so the formula images generated with Xfractint will more closely resemble the ones generated by the fast assembly language parser of the DOS version, which already uses the long double type. This does affect other fractal types since the complex type in Xfractint is now defined as two long doubles instead of two doubles. The DOS version did not (knowingly) get changed because of the speed hit and it broke all kinds of things. Jonathan