Scott P. Jones

@stevengj I'll try to take time off from annoying Stefan about numeric literal inconsistencies and string performance issues ;-) and download the Intel library, figure out out to use it,...

@stevengj Here are some initial results... this is with the arbitrary precision decNumber type, not even using the shorter types... ``` julia julia> @time run(dec) (1.25 + 2.55) => 25500000001.25,...

@PallHaraldsson Did I say that I thought that? I've already said that I think the Intel library likely might be faster on Intel hardware (just an assumption that Intel would...

@PallHaraldsson I'm sorry you thought I was implying that... I hate over generalizations with benchmark results... I showed exactly which numbers I used, how many iterations, and even included the...

> One thing I don't like about decNumber is that it seems to use pass-by-reference for everything, which seems silly for passing and returning 32- and 64-bit values. It may...

@stevengj I'm close to having something showable based on the decNumber library (I need to figure out how to add building the library from the C code in a package,...

@stevengj I've just put a very cringe-worthy attempt at wrapping the decNumber C library up (the very first package I've created, actually!), still very much a work-in-progress, but if you...

I think having a pure Julia decimal floating point package would be great, but I do think it would be nicer to have it compatible with the IEEE BID format...

Will you still have the option for using DecFP for ODBC? That's rather important for us.

The Windows support doesn't affect us (we only deploy on Linux, and do a bit of development on MacOS). I've been so busy getting our product moved to v0.5.1 and...