Re: svn commit: r1412425 - in /subversion/trunk/subversion: include/private/svn_string_private.h libsvn_subr/string.c tests/libsvn_subr/string-test.c

On 22.11.2012 18:29, Branko Čibej wrote:
> On 22.11.2012 17:01, Julian Foad wrote:
>> Just use 'float' and [0..1]? I'm thinking we may want to use this for comparing diff hunks, and there may be more than 500 characters in each hunk and it matters whether just one character has been changed.
> Could do that, too. Harder to test though. :) It's trivial to extend the
> range to [0..10**6] or even 10**9 if that's a problem. Frankly it feels
> nice to keep the whole thing integral and not leave floating-point
> messes around.

Actually I'm being silly. The function already provides the actual LCS
length, so if 3 significant digits aren't enough, you can always compare
that to the length of the hunk.

-- Brane

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Branko Čibej
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