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> I question whether this was a monopoly move on Intel's part Well, I was happy about that because I no longer had to deal with switches to generated x87 code
by WalterBright 11mo ago
> I question whether this was a monopoly move on Intel's part
Well, I was happy about that because I no longer had to deal with switches to generated x87 code or emulate it.
- bonzini 11mo agoOnly to later add switches that chose between x87 and SSE? :)
- WalterBright 11mo agoSadly, yes. Too bad that 80 bit floating point is essentially dead.