[gst-devel] fractions

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Hi,
> 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.

Correct.

> > 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.

Someone will have to step up and write the first chunk of non-shitty
floating point code that solves the problems these projects ran into.  I
can tell you for sure it won't be me.


> > 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.

Agreed, and thanks.

Thomas


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