gentoo-overlay/dev-haskell/double-conversion/metadata.xml

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<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="project">
		<email>haskell@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Gentoo Haskell</name>
	</maintainer>
	<longdescription>
		A library that performs fast, accurate conversion between double
		precision floating point and text.
		
		This library is implemented as bindings to the C++
		@double-conversion@ library written by Florian Loitsch at Google:
		&lt;http://code.google.com/p/double-conversion/&gt;.
		
		The 'Text' versions of these functions are about 30 times faster
		than the default 'show' implementation for the 'Double' type.
		
		The 'ByteString' versions are /slower/ than the 'Text' versions;
		roughly half the speed.  (This seems to be due to the cost of
		allocating 'ByteString' values via @malloc@.)
		
		As a final note, be aware that the @bytestring-show@ package is
		about 50% slower than simply using 'show'.
	</longdescription>
</pkgmetadata>