Hi, On 9 Jul 2012, at 06:02, Steve Kargl wrote:
> If you're doing accouting, hopefully, you're using BCD. Would be nice, but it's far too slow for financial analysis; the chip designers go out of their way to provide fast floating point. Fortunately 53 bits is usually plenty with 2dp max. -- Bob Bishop r...@gid.co.uk _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"