On Thursday, 9 August 2012 at 18:35:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 8/9/2012 10:40 AM, dsimcha wrote:
I'd emphasize the following:
I'd like to add to that:
1. Proper support for 80 bit floating point types. Many
compilers' libraries have inaccurate 80 bit math functions, or
don't implement 80 bit floats at all. 80 bit floats reduce the
incidence of creeping roundoff error.
How unique to D is this feature? Does this imply that things
like BLAS and LAPACK, random number generators, statistical
distribution functions, and other numerical software should be
rewritten in pure D rather than calling out to external C or
Fortran codes?
TJB
