wish: optimize (x > 0.) floating point comparison.

[Richard Henderson]

On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 09:11:27AM +0200, Branko Cibej wrote:
> I think that's a bit strong. After all, the 80-bit float format used is
> an IEEE standard, as far as I know.

Well, if you consider a standard used by exactly one machine "standard"...

> And what's wrong with having 80-bit
> long doubles instead of 128-bit ones?

No, what's wrong is that it is impossible to get intermediate results
properly rounded without sacrificing all performance.


r~