Mersenne: Re: FFTW for GIMPS?

[Steinar H. Gunderson]

On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 07:43:17PM +0100, Brian J. Beesley wrote:
>Alignment on 4-byte boundaries is quite sufficient for C floats. Ten-
>byte reals (direct copies from FPU registers) are a problem

When did using 10-byte reals become common? As far as I remember, you
don't even have a store instruction for that. The 80-bit load is slower
than the 64-bit load too, I think.

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