Warp wrote:
>   Btw, out of curiosity, I downloaded the Thunderbird source code and
> searched for usage of floating point. There are quite a lot of 'float'
> and 'double' types used there, as well as many calls to the math.h library.

Funky. I'll have to take a look to see what they're doing. Back when 
efficiency was more a concern, compilers would go out of their way to avoid 
loading FP code (like for printf()) if they didn't need to. Maybe it's 
faster to draw lines with FP nowadays than to use Bresenham or something.

Now you have me curious. I'll have to pull down sendmail and apache and 
subversion and etc to check. :-)  I suspect most of the FP has something to 
do with the UI, but I might be wrong there.

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