[gst-devel] fractions

[David Schleef]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:06:29PM +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> How are they as invasive as a general number type ?

It's more invasive than using GstDouble.

> So the rounding errors made it impossible for mencoder to do a common
> operation we eventually want to support.

I can't help that other projects write shitty floating point code.
That is not a reason to avoid floating point numbers.

> I'm trying to get
> you to convince me why floats are good enough given that every codec
> project or person that has an opinion about it (excluding me) is saying
> it isn't.

The simple reason is: we use floats _now_.  And we're in a stable
series.

> I don't know what to do about this.

Apply it.  Changing your patch to floats now would likely create
more problems than could be created by the patch as is.



dave...