RFC: fp printing speedup patch

[pcarlini@unitus.it]

Zitat von Jerry Quinn <jlquinn@optonline.net>: 
 
> Hi, folks.  After way too long, I've finally gotten working a patch to 
> integrate 
> the libio fp printing code into the library.  For the example in the 
> performance testsuite, this is worth a 3.5x speedup, since the routines use 
> doubles in place of big int computations. 
[snip] 
 
Great, Jerry! My best compliments! 
 
Currently, I'm out of town for a Conference, but I hope to comment on it before 
the end of the week. 
 
Ciao, 
Paolo.