Re: Floating point usage in a MIB module

[Andy Bierman <abierman@cisco.com>]

At 05:09 PM 1/30/2004, David T. Perkins wrote:
>HI,
>>....
>I truely believe that floats are important. And even though
>the last time we talked about this, and Jeff Case and Andy Bierman
>were againest it due to the costs, I understand their concern
>but do not agree with the extent of the costs, and believe the
>benefits are quite great.

I think we should distinguish between floating point
operations and floating point representation.  It's
not difficult to add code to an agent to encode
an (internal) integer as a float.  It is difficult
to add float arithmetic support to an agent that
doesn't have any such code already.  

>>...
>Regards,
>/david t. perkins

Andy