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2003-12-29, 16:46

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ewmayer

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Quote:

Originally posted by ColdFury
AFAIK, the 128-bit float on a sparc is emulated. When you use them it traps to a software routine that emulates a 128-bit float.

As does the MIPS/SGI, and the Alpha, and and and...

There just aren't enough day-to-day computations that need that kind of precision to make it worthwhile for chip designers to support it in hardware. And I don't see that changing anytime soon.

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