Sargon component library now on Dub

[Don via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 14 December 2014 at 03:26:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> http://code.dlang.org/packages/sargon
>
> These two modules failed to generate much interest in 
> incorporating them into Phobos, but I'm still rather proud of 
> them :-)

So am I, the halffloat is much faster than any other 
implementation I've seen. The fast path for the conversion 
functions involves only a few machine instructions.

I had an extra speedup for it that made it optimal, but it 
requires a language primitive to dump excess hidden precision. We 
still need this, it is a fundamental operation (C tries to do it 
implicitly using "sequence points", but they don't actually work 
properly).

>
> Here they are:
>
> ◦sargon.lz77 - algorithms to compress and expand with LZ77 
> compression algorithm
>
> ◦sargon.halffloat - IEEE 754 half-precision binary floating 
> point format binary16
>
> I'll be adding more in the future.