On 13/04/2014 4:29 PM, Francesco Cattoglio wrote:
I don't quite see the point in this, when there is already a standard for floating point decimals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal64_floating-point_format I really should take a deeper look at this, it might be more interesting that I am expecting.
The talk I watched only touched on the motivation for a new format very briefly, but the gist was that the existing offerings were too computationally expensive to emulate in software and hardware support is not forthcoming. My understanding is that this format is designed around what can be done efficiently with the instructions that are available in hardware today.
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