ow Integers Should Work

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/6/11 1:16 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/5/2011 8:48 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 12/5/11 10:15 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 12/5/2011 8:10 PM, bearophile wrote:
>>>> This is not about integers but yeah, I'd like the better str<-> float
>>>> conversions of Python in D too.
>>>
>>> Do you have any test data that they actually are better in Python (apart
>>> from just being better specified)?
>>
>> I can tell Google's double-conversion routines (http://goo.gl/RU5g4)
>> are faster
>> than sprintf/sscanf, in addition to being better specified. We use
>> them at
>> Facebook.
>
> Darn, licensing problems:
>
> "Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
> notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
> documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution."
>
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

This is a general issue. Can it be overcome by distributing the text in 
the HTML documentation included with the download?

Andrei