Re: More efficient "dbl_raise"

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Saturday 07 April 2007 15:58, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
>>Move the patch into CVS or dump it?  (Discussing things and not resolving them,
>>even for as trivial a patch as this, isn't productive.)
> 
> 
> Was there a real problem that this was supposed to solve?
> If not, drop it.

Recap:  The patch mimics dbl_raise() behavior, but uses an existing library 
function pow() that is probably more efficient than a multiplicative loop and 
handles the NaN value for which gnuplot appears to hang for five minutes.  E.g., 
slightly cleaner code and handles NaN.  Feel free to close the patch, but at the 
same time please remove

/* FIXME HBB 20000426: is this really useful? */

which only invites people to investigate suggesting there is a problem.

Dan