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From: Francois Berenger <francois.berenger@inria.fr>
To: OCaml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Comparing floats
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 10:46:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55B0A9D5.4000008@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150723083517.GA2029@pl-59055.rocqadm.inria.fr>

On 07/23/2015 10:35 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> What's the most efficient way to compare floats, please?
> Is it the polymorphic compare function, or is there a more specialized
> version of it?
>
> I saw Float.compare mentionned on the web but that does not seem to exist
> any longer?

It exists in Batteries for sure and in Core I believe.

Also, maybe you can define:

let cmp_f (x: float) (y: float) = x -. y

> Thanks,
>
> Sébastien.
>

-- 
Regards,
Francois.
"When in doubt, use more types"

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-23  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-23  8:35 Sébastien Hinderer
2015-07-23  8:46 ` Francois Berenger [this message]
2015-07-23  9:05   ` Mr. Herr
2015-07-23  9:01 ` Xavier Leroy
2015-07-23  9:35   ` Sébastien Hinderer
2015-07-23  9:54   ` Mr. Herr
2015-08-04  9:06     ` Goswin von Brederlow
2015-07-23 11:34 ` Boris Yakobowski
2015-07-23 15:14   ` Jacques-Henri Jourdan
2015-07-23 16:34     ` Boris Yakobowski
2015-07-23 17:00       ` Xavier Leroy

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