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Re: [rfc] enable non-trivial complex division


> What is logarithmic reduction?

You split the floating point numbers into a fractional parts
and exponents, do the computation with the fractional parts
as far as possible and put the exponents back in at the end.

An example is at

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=7989&action=view


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