I don't know, I suspect that the Intel library will be faster on Intel hardware... That's why I think it's important to architect things so that both can be used I the same process... Intel for the 3 types they provide, and decNumber for the other 4.
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 29, 2015, at 8:38 AM, Steven G. Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 8:08:48 AM UTC-4, Scott Jones wrote: >> handle all numbers without losing information (this is why I'd also like to >> see a wrapper for the decNumber package, it supports all 6 fixed with >> formats, an arbitrary precision format, it supports many more platforms such >> as IBM's Power, and might even be usable for ARM builds). > > Interesting, I didn't realize that it had this advantage. I might consider > switching over DecFP to use decNumber instead of the Intel library, or have > the option to switch between them. I wonder how the performance compares to > the Intel library?
