Re: More efficient "dbl_raise"

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 09 April 2007 16:20, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> > It's not even a question of library functions. It's a consequence of the
> > IEEE floating point format.  Presumably you wouldn't see this on a, say,
> > a VAX if you chose one of the native double precision  representations
> > rather than IEEE. They give you the option of spending more bits on the
> > precision (mantissa) and fewer on the range (exponent).
> > Of course then you'd hit true overflow sooner.  You can't win.
> 
> So this means dbl_raise() implementation is better than pow()?

I have no idea, because I can't for the life of me figure out what
the issue is here.  What problem are you trying to fix?
If there's no problem, just forget the whole thing.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt