Re: [racket-dev] Extflonum type for windows

2013-03-20 Thread Neil Toronto
On 03/20/2013 05:14 AM, Michael Filonenko wrote: Meanwhile, it happens that switching the precision at the last minute allows the 32-bit Windows build to support extflonums without using SSE and without affecting flonum arithmetic. Agreed. But since switching the processor "at last minute" ever

Re: [racket-dev] Extflonum type for windows

2013-03-20 Thread Michael Filonenko
> The 32-bit Windows build does not use SSE for flonum operations, so > setting the precision at the start to extended mode would affect flonum > arithmetic. Sorry that I did not take that into account. > It's possible that we should switch the build to use SSE, but I worry > about dropping suppo