Re: Mersenne: Thoughts on Merced / IA-64

[Anonymous]

At 11:36 PM 6/16/99 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
>*If* the IA64 has a fast pipelineable 64 bit * 64 bit -> 128 bit integer
>multiply capability, perhaps the FPU is no longer needed?  

You still need floating point numbers and that's probably better handled with
FPU hardware.



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