Re: Fixed point cairo.. or no cairo?

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 12:34 -0400, Carl Worth wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:09:48 +0300, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 10:46 -0700, Carl Worth wrote:
> >
> > > I'm planning to put new fixed<->floating-point conversion code into
> > > cairo this week.
> >
> > Any progress on this?
> 
> Nope. Didn't happen yet.
> 
> If someone wants to look at it, here are some details of what could be
> done:

Not irrelevant to the discussion, Slashdot is linking to this "The
Trouble with Rounding Floats" article on The Registrar today:

  http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/06/08/13/2152222.shtml
  http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/08/12/floating_point_approximation/

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