On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 10:21 -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: […] > > https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2895 > > This is just the tip of the iceberg. The full enhancement is described > in: > > https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10762 >
Sadly, I suspect it will be a long time before this is usable by folk in the field :-( It's a pity there is not better support for arbitrary size integers and floating point in D. Hardware integers are too limited and hardware floating point far too inaccurate for an awful lot of computing out there (*). Groovy is getting a lot of traction exactly because the default floating point is BigDecimal and not IEEE754. (*) I know games requires speed above all else, as does a lot of the sort of calculations I have done in the past, but these calculations generally need very few significant digits of accuracy. We won't mention the calculation that are just wrong because insufficient attention to error management occurs. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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