On Wed, 10 May 2017 19:08:01 +0200, Peter Hunkeler wrote: >Is the performance of floating point instruction so much better today? I seem >to remember that floating point instructions had not been the fastest in >earlier times and machines (I may be wrong with this).
My understanding is that Decimal Floating Point was implemented in Millicode on the z9, but on the z10, it was implemented entirely in hardware. As such, I would expect it to be quite fast. -- Tom Marchant
