From: Damian McGuckin <damianm@esi.com.au>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Cc: mg1633068 <songyue@smail.nju.edu.cn>
Subject: Re: [musl] casinh function accuracy problem
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:46:08 +1100 (AEDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.02.2002121031560.9274@key0.esi.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200211232432.GU1663@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
On Tue, 11 Feb 2020, Rich Felker wrote:
> High-quality complex math functions are a long-term wishlist item for
> musl but nobody has stepped up to do them and I don't really feel like
> doing it, at least not over other improvements I could be working on.
As you say, they do work reasonably well even now.
With even complex arithmetic being "unspecified" in IEEE-754-2019, it is
an interesting issue where "interesting" does not have the conventional
English sense of being a positive thing.
> This might be an area well-served by sponsored enhancement if there's
> a user who needs them improved with resources to pay someone to do it.
Depending on your definition of "improved", it is anything from a big task
to a huge task.
And sadly, I have other things on my plate too.
Mc 2c - Damian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-12 0:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-11 15:51 mg1633068
2020-02-11 19:30 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-02-11 23:24 ` Rich Felker
2020-02-12 0:46 ` Damian McGuckin [this message]
2020-02-12 2:00 ` Rich Felker
2020-02-12 4:07 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-02-12 4:19 ` Rich Felker
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