On 21.05.2016 15:45, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 21.05.2016 00:22, Walter Bright wrote:... may I present Kahan who concurrently designed the IEEE 754 spec and the x87.The x87 is by far not the slam-dunk design you seem to make it out to be. ...
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00128124v5/documentCheck out section 5 for some convincing examples showing why the x87 is horrible.
