On 03/18/2013 07:53 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote:
The JIT could be improved to avoid switching between consecutive operations, but does the cost of this approach look reasonable as a start?
IMO, yes. The only other good options for higher precision are Racket's rationals and `math/bigfloat', which are both much slower. Compared to those, a 2x penalty for addition and subtraction is nothing.
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