FixedFloatArray.sort() code review

Jonathan "Duke" Leto jonathan at leto.net
Sat Jan 26 19:26:49 UTC 2013


Howdy,

Thanks, Patrick!

I have updated the branch:

https://github.com/parrot/parrot/compare/ffa_sort

Is anybody interested in writing some more tests? This is a great
opportunity for somebody wanting to dip their feet into writing some PIR.

Duke

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 04:54:08PM -0800, Jonathan "Duke" Leto wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I would appreciate a code review here:
> >
> > https://github.com/parrot/parrot/compare/ffa_sort
> >
> > One thing that I don't quite feel great about is using == on FLOATVALs.
> > What is a better solution? Should I compare them to within some
> tolerance?
>
> Why not...
>
>     return (*i < *j) ? -1 : (*i > *j);
>
> This avoids the test for == altogether.
>
> Pm
>



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