Re: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

2001-09-13 Thread Tim Conrow
>Okay, I'm whipping together the "fancy math" section of the interpreter >assembley language. I've got: > ... >Can anyone think of things I've forgotten? It's been a while since I've >done numeric work. HP calculators sometimes define lnp1(x) = ln(1 + x) expm1(x) = exp(x) - 1 to deal accu

Re: What's up with %MY?

2001-09-13 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 05:42 PM 9/12/2001 -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: >Uri Guttman can see a day where: > > python and ruby, etc. are > > defaulting to using the parrot back end as it will be faster, and > > compatible with perl etc. imagine the work reduction if all/most of the > > interpreted languages can share o

Re: What's up with %MY?

2001-09-13 Thread David L. Nicol
Uri Guttman can see a day where: > python and ruby, etc. are > defaulting to using the parrot back end as it will be faster, and > compatible with perl etc. imagine the work reduction if all/most of the > interpreted languages can share one common back end. What about the compiled ones? Did we c