[cairo] Patches for speeding up _cairo_fixed_from_double

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Wed Nov 8 11:43:22 PST 2006


On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 16:13 -0800, Carl Worth wrote:

> 
> Does anybody have a good reason that cairo should work with the FPU in
> single-precision mode?
> 
> Until someone speaks up there, I suggest we eliminate the current
> comment and replace it with a sentence in the manual and in NEWS (for
> sake of the next release) officially making single-precision mode
> unsupported.

I speak up.

On some/many machines, single precision is much faster than double
precision (e.g. the Geode).
                           Regards,
                                    - Jim
 
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Jim Gettys
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