2 Sep
2005
2 Sep
'05
6:40 a.m.
Lee Braiden:
On Friday 02 September 2005 02:37, bulia byak wrote:
Well, as you understand, we must have some minimum limit to zoom, and no matter how far it is, there will be documents so large that you can't zoom out far enough. So, what do you propose? Unlimited zoom-out is impossible. We can stretch it to accommodate this particular file, but there will always be still larger ones.
Well, on a purely technical level... bignums would would cover this, wouldn't it?
Yes, but even if performance was not so bad, overhauling the code to replace numbers with classes and then the following memory explosion would be forbidding.
For the record, libgmp is the fastest at the moment, and is well used and tested.
ralf