11 May
2006
11 May
'06
7:47 p.m.
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:57:30PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
On the other hand, keeping intermediate Doubles to 80-bit precision is both (a) non-portable and (b) unpredictable (the programmer doesn't know which intermediates are going to be stored in 80 bits, and turning on optimisation will probably make a difference).
Indeed, not storing the intermediate values as 80 bits is one of the 'nicer' things I was refering to. :) though, this does bring up another standardish C type we should support __float128 and __complex as pointed out by Aaron. any idea what would be a good module to export them from? John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈