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[Thiago Macieira]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:46 PM, smog zer <smogzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, i follow the mailing list but i do not agree that because Havoc
>> does not use float it should not be supported.
>> I use float all the time in my projects (3d and computer vision)
>> because the graphics pipeline is optimized for float, and i also need
>> dbus, so i do no understand the inconvenience of adding support for
>> float as lots of people will use it.
>
>Well, it's a fair bit of work to add while keeping back compat
>(feature negotiation has to be added). If someone did that work, I
>don't think float is a big problem to add, but it's not as simple as
>just adding float everywhere double now appears in the code, because
>of the compat issue. Feature negotiation needs to be added first to
>the auth protocol.
>
>Given that it's a fair bit of work to do feature negotiation, I'm not
>sure float is worth it or that we have any volunteers that would be up
>for adding it.

Feature negotiation has to be end-to-end, over the bus daemon. That's a 
huge problem because you would have to negotiate with all your peers.

If someone has a suggestion on how that would work, let us know. The 
solution I came up with a year ago would *still* require a break the wire 
protocol.

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