On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Charles R Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Michael Gilbert > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Are there any plans to add support for decimal floating point >> arithmetic, as defined in the 2008 revision of the IEEE 754 standard >> [0], in numpy? >> > > Not at the moment. There is currently no hardware
Strictly speaking, there is hardware support on some high end hardware (power6, but I have no idea how this is available through common languages, like C or Fortran. I guess this would be compiler specific. A software implementation would be much more interesting at this stage, as I guess it will takes years before support comes to commodity CPUs. cheers, David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
