Changeset be4e0ca

Timestamp:

02/20/2019 10:50:33 PM (5 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, kea, ken/inkscape-core-mods, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/python-mods, qt5new, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

2d3c8d3

Parents:

632f5f80

Message:

fftw: Start a series of wording fixes by expanfding the Note.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@21216 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• general/genlib/fftw.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general/genlib/fftw.xml

@@ -82 +82 @@
     <title>Installation of fftw</title>
 
-    <note><para>We build fftw three times for different libraries that
-    support different numerical precisions.</para></note>
+    <note><para>We build fftw three times for different libraries in
+    different numerical precisions: the default double precision floating point,
+    the older 32-bit (single precision) version named float which sacrifices
+    precision for speed, and the long double which offers increased precision
+    at the cost of slower execution.</para></note>
 
     <para>