Re: double patch [was Re: libgsf: very preliminary patch]

J.M. Maurer wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:15 +0000, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>
>>J.M. Maurer wrote:
>>
>>>I'm willing to update the double-branch if I'm allowed to merge it into
>>>HEAD after that....
>>
>>No objections from me, but we will almost certainly need to continue
>>maintaining an int branch after that -- there is no FP on the 770, and
>>the soft FP is not great performance wise.
>
>
> Trust me, that won't be possible.. the patch touches almost every line
> in af/gr/* and text/* ... it would be a 100% fork, where every single
> patch has to be rewritten for the int branch.

I don't think we can get around this, the FP is not viable for the many
of the embedded platforms, and I would like us to keep a foothold there.
At the same time we want to take advantage of the FP apis that are
becoming available on the desktop like cairo.

I think we could reduce the impact of the change if we typedef UT_Unit
as double / int and have some comparison macros, like UT_Unit_eq(),
UT_Unit_gt(), _lt () _ge(), _le().

Tomas
Received on Tue Feb 21 20:55:52 2006