Re: libffm.0.28 released !!

["Jeff DeMaagd" <jdemaa17 calvin edu>]

Oh boy oh boy oh boy.  I REALLY like these routines.  This looks like the
product of lots of smarts.  The math knowledge required isn't quite in my
field, but I'll be sure to link to these routines whenever I need math on
AXP.  As I don't really plan to own any other type of system for
programming and performance, that should be quite often and rarely not
used.

Is there any particular reason that GPL was chosen over LGPL?  At least
that what I recall from looking through the directory.  It seems that there
are many 'open source' programs (POVray?) that could benefit from this, but
GPL seems to be incompatible with anything non-GPL, but LGPL allows non-GPL
programs to link (I also assume statically) to LGPL libraries.

I appreciate the effort needed to do this.

JRDM


>Version 0.28 of free fast math routines (libffm) now released


>because people have already been waiting for so long, we are now
>releasing an intermediate version 0.28 of libffm, a free fast libm
>replacement for the Alpha 21164 (but should also work on 2106x). Further
improvements should come soon in version 0.30.


>Further modification could be (besides the argument checking) the
>fine-tuning of the last bits of the constants used and of the order of
>evaluation to minimize or compensate the effect of rounding
>errors.

>The routines can be downloaded
>at
>http://people.frankfurt.netsurf.de/Joachim.Wesner/libffm.0.28.tar.gz