[DGD] Full double precision floats?

[Raymond Jennings]

Would such a feature be acceptable for mainline inclusion or would it need
to be maintained as a separate branch?


On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Felix A. Croes <felix at dworkin.nl> wrote:

> Raymond Jennings <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey, just curious if there's any cost/benefit factors not immediately
> > obvious if DGD were to expand its floats from 36 bits to the full 64
> bits.
>
> I guess you mean 36 bits to 52 bits.  You'll get 16 more bits of mantissa,
> not 28 bits.
>
> The main drawback would be storage.  It would take more space, both in
> memory and in snapshots.  And of course, snapshots would have to be
> converted.
>
> Regards,
> Felix Croes
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