On 18/08/03, Daniel Rogers wrote: > Well, the idea is that buffers are trivial to add. And yes, I imagine > the Gimp will use floats instead of doubles, but I think that the api's > should accept doubles, since there is no real reason not to. (Double > math is as fast as float math on most (all?) major platforms (SPARC, > x86, ppc)). GeglBufferDouble is the easiest to write, because of this. > (gegl buffer float is exactly the same, except with a typecast before > storing the elements). Sven wrote: >GIMP already uses (almost?) nothing but doubles in it's API. >I tend to agree with Daniel here. Alright then. You convince me. I was beginning to think about issues where the storage space, parameters space, and math space are not all the same (in this case double) but I am getting ahead. > > > >You could check in new stuff that is due to replace what is there now, and > >write unit tests that would excercise it, but just dont actually hook up > >the new stuff to the current front end. > > > gurr. Now I have to move stuff around. No, dont. We can do it whatever way you have already started. Dont move stuff around. > I think I would rather have this stuff in a different folder, which a > different unit test application. > Yeah good. We'll do it this way. Where will your unit tests and test application live? In a subdir of tests called image or what? > > > ok. Consider this my ping. So, the fundamental image stuff (e.g. the > classes unrelated to ops) I would like to put in the directory > gegl/gegl/image. This would include all classes related to images (in > particular the stuff I mentioned I am working on). This would also mean > that we don't need to rename stuff if we use a different unit test app > that links only against libimage.a, at least until all this stuff is > integrated. I like that. > I might be tempted to suggest names for other subunits within gegl. > Those that come to mind are: geg/gegl/graph (all generic graph and graph > tranversal stuff), gegl/gegl/op (the operators and possible a future op > registry system). image, op, graph are good names by me too for those subunits. Calvin
