Marc-Antoine Desroches a écrit :
Hello,
I work for a game developer and we study the possibility of using haxe
on neko as a scripting platform but we need to have really good
performance across the board, including floating point arithmetic. Is
there a way to have floating point numbers that are not boxed or is
there a plan to provide such a feature in the future?
Hello,
Floating point speed is not that bad, but could be improved.I've been
thinking about this for some time already.
While it's not possible to modify the VM to unbox floats, it would be
possible to provide a lowlevel API for performing optimized floating
point calculus (that would be turned into FPU/SSE instructions by JIT).
This API would not be very easy to use directly in Neko, but the haXe
compiler could easily target it, at least for floating point calculus
involving local variables (for calls and object storage, boxing would
still be needed).
Nicolas
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