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I find it funny how the author easily dismisses IEEE decimal floating point because it hasn't seen huge adaptation since 2008 when it was released. It since ha
by legulere 11y ago
I find it funny how the author easily dismisses IEEE decimal floating point because it hasn't seen huge adaptation since 2008 when it was released.
It since has been implemented in some CPUs: IBM z9 upwards, POWER 6 upwards
- pgaddict 11y agoYeah, exactly the same impression here. And it's not the case that there are no other software implementations - for example GCC supports _Decimal32/64/128 since 4.3 (https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Decimal-float-library-routines.html https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Decimal-float-library-...).
- pepijndevos 11y agoLast time this was on HN, people also wondered why you'd have hundreds of representations of the same number, and how you'd do a fast equality check.