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Re: Implementation of log(x) for SPARC32
Personally, I use a mail client that has a wonderful innovative new
feature called "threads". This allows me to detect on first or second
emails a thread that is not interesting to me, and skip all further
readins on it.
In this particular case, however, I skipped all technical stuff and went
right for the flames. So refreshing to hear the IGLU people be so creative.
P.S.
Nadav - I have some GDB sessions on VHS, if you like.
Nadav Har'El wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 25, 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Re: Implementation of log(x) for SPARC32":
>
>>Actually, I checked it against the numbers in the range 0 .. 1, which is
>>my working range, and I discovered it returns very inaccurate results.
>>With some input from Ehud Karni, I wrote an improved function that uses a
>>different taylor series. Here it is for your reference:
>>
>
>Shlomi, I'm always happy to see someone excited about what they're doing,
>but sometimes you have to restrain yourself a bit...
>
>Please, before you publish codes here (and claiming that you've reinvented the
>wheel) 2-3 times a day, at least try to check that they actually work (and
>not "return very inaccurate results").
>It would have been much better (at least if my opinion) if you tested your
>code thoroughly, compared it to other implementations, and so on, before
>you ask everyone to check it and/or tell you what they think about it.
>
>Frankly, seeing all the intermediate versions of your code is about as
>interesting as watching someone doing debugging, live on television ;) [2]
>
>It's made even less interesting by the fact that you're reinventing the
>wheel. If you gave us a buggy time-machine (as an example of something that
>hasn't been invented yet) this would have been interesting. But a buggy wheel?
>No thanks - I already have 4 non-buggy ones. [1]
>
>[1] Please resist replying with the joke that if I had a buggy, I would have
> wanted buggy wheels :)
>[2] Don't tell Matav this idea, or they'll add the "gdb channel" to their
> rediculous selection of useless channels and increase their prices!
>
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