> On Mar 30, 2021, at 1:03 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.go...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Overall, I'd be happy to see Decimal types that are aimed at "reasonable > precision" in addition to the infinite precision that BD offers. (After > Valhalla, of course.) >
Yes, me too. Raffaello, as an experiment you could develop such classes as primitive classes compiled against recent builds of Valhalla. I would caution against unduly biasing towards "business applications”, as I think with primitive classes and other possible features Java can become a better platform for scientific or engineering purposes. As an example we are making progress with the Vector API and in the panama-vector repo we have integrated with code of Intel’s Short Vector Math Library, which may open the possibility for it to be used by the auto-vectorizer too. Paul.
