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Support for 128 bit floating point numbers?

Open v0dro opened this issue 10 years ago • 2 comments

I just read here that GCC supports 128 floating point numbers on intel hardware as data type __float128.

Would it be possible to implement this in nmatrix? Maybe only for intel x86 machines?

v0dro avatar Feb 17 '15 17:02 v0dro

Yes — the problem being that ATLAS doesn't support quads. We could do this, but it would need to be part of eliminating the unnecessary rational types. Why only for Intel x86 machines, out of curiosity?

translunar avatar Feb 17 '15 18:02 translunar

I'm not putting a milestone on this enhancement because I think it needs some more design work before it can really be considered achievable.

translunar avatar Mar 11 '15 19:03 translunar