Dirk Schreib wrote: > I completly agree with your your statement. Always nice to hear :-).
> We used the proposed IEEE754 layouts for our own number class > with some minor changes. The proposed format seems to be ideal > for hardware but was a little bit to slow for a pure software > implementation. > > For every feature in the specification we asked "Is there a > performance penalty even if I don't use this feature" and removed it > if necessary. > The resulting class is quite fast (not as fast as a fixed point > decimal class). Any documentation of what you ended up with? Mike Cowlishaw _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
