From: botp <botpena@...>
Date: 2012-01-25T23:28:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills

2012/1/25 Matthias Wächter <matthias@waechter.wiz.at>:
> I’m curious to see what’s gonna happen once Desktop CPUs start to support
> the nice decimal floating-point types of IEEE 754-2008
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-2008#Basic_formats] … maybe Ruby
> should already prepare syntactically for support of these types. And, in
> theory, there is already a library from Intel
> [http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-decimal-floating-point-math-library/]
> one can use to do decimal floating-point math.

wow, thanks for the update. i hope ruby can indeed support that even
if i need to recompile manually.

-botp