(All previous quoting ruthlessly snipped.) A question for Tim Peters, as I guess he'll have the most experience in this sort of thing.
With all the cross-platform hassles due to the various C compilers not implementing the IEEE standard completely or correctly, I wonder how much work would be involved for some kind soul to implement their own maths library to do the lot, allowing Python to bypass the C libraries altogether. Are you falling over laughing Tim, or thinking what a great idea? What sort of work is needed? Is it, say, as big a job as maintaining Python? Bigger? One weekend spent working solidly? -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
