Re: Floating point usage in a MIB module

["David T. Perkins" <dperkins@dsperkins.com>]

HI,

I agree with the distictions that Andy as pointed out below.
I just don't find the cost factors to be excessly high
in a system without floating point hardware. We continue
to respectfully disagree on this issue. Probably a supplier
of float emulation software can provide detailed numbers of
the code footprint size. And, of course extensize
use of float for management instrumentation in a system
without hardware float support is going to bog down
the CPU. But you all know these tradeoffs....

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Andy Bierman wrote:
> 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
> 
/david t. perkins