Pivoting

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Eric!

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:21:49 -0400
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Gary E. Miller <gem at rellim.com>:
> > Yo Eric!
> > 
> > On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 09:58:10 -0400
> > "Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > > The code in step_systime() is really really ugly.  (to my
> > > > eye)    
> > > 
> > > Not just to yours...  
> > 
> > So, can we now got back to my better version?  The one that had no
> > l_fp or pivot needs or dependencies?  
> 
> Not yet.  We know that code stinks, but there is still thinking to be
> done before replacing it.

Rush?  Thinking was already done, Hal was happier with the code than
what it is now.  What about that code have I not explained clearly yet?

> There's no rush; we have more than a decade
> before the issue becomes urgent.

That code is causing loss of precision and jitter now.  Reverting it
to what I had it will makes things better now, and in the future.

I want to kill all l_fp as much as possible before l_fp.  Once you
agree that my approach is better there are many similar piece of code
that can be ripped out.

The more l_fp we can agree to remove the less l_fp we need to worry about
for 2036.

>  Much more important to get this
> right than do it fast.

Yes, and everyone seems to think my code has it right, just waiting on you.

RGDS
GARY
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