Re: IEEE single precision float values

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     I came up with the following two functions below.  I think they
>     are generically useable for network IO and possibly reading
>     certain data records from files directly.  I am fairly sure
>     my version is very bad regarding performance though.
>
> Whether that is a problem depends on what the application is.
> Anyway, if this is generally useful we could install it.

I think this is something that should quite likely rather be done in C
on platforms with IEEE floating point arithmetic.  It seems rather
pointless (not to mention bug-prone) to go through all that Elisp when
just typecasting the bit patterns should be enough.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum