28 Mar
2013
28 Mar
'13
12:58 p.m.
On 2013-03-28 13:28, Paul A. Bristow wrote:
There has recently been some discussion on improving portability of programs using floating-point.
A common use case for fixed-length floats that you do not mention explicitly in your document is the exchange of floats over binary network protocols, such as the Google Protocol Buffer [1] or Message Pack [2]. Here the concern is not so much about the fidelity of calculations, but rather to have a common binary representation of floats. It may be worth adding this use case. [1] https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding [2] http://wiki.msgpack.org/display/MSGPACK/Format+specification PS: Many of the links in the html document are broken.