Mark Dickinson wrote: > Thank you: a very useful thread. From what little information I'm turning > up on Google, it looks as though most of these devices---if they support > floating-point at all---provide some reasonably close approximation to IEEE > 754 floats (possibly emulated in software).
Some of the devices have a (slow) floating point engine. But it's sometimes disabled to safe power or userland software can't sometimes access the FPU. Some devices can (ab)use the DSP or GPU/OpenGL engine to speed up floating point ops. Christian _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
