On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 03:18:05 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 01:03:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:I've actually been thinking of writing a 128 bit float emulator, and then using that in the compiler internals to do all FP computation with.[...]And be 20x slower than hardware floats. Is it really worth it?
Emulator is meant for computation during compilation only, so CTFE results are consistent across different compilers and compiler host hardware (IIUC).
-- Alexander
