On Monday, 16 May 2016 at 12:37:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

7. 80 bit reals are there and they work. The support is mature, and is rarely worked on, i.e. it does not consume resources.

This may not be true for too much longer-- both Intel and AMD are slowly phasing the x86 FPU out. I think Intel already announced a server chip that omits it entirely, though I can't find the corroborating link.

-Wyatt

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