[DGD] Full double precision floats?

Felix A. Croes felix at dworkin.nl
Sun Apr 28 10:47:28 CEST 2013


Raymond Jennings <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually I just checked back on this discussion back in Feb 2010 and the
> topic then was actually 80 bit floats, where you mentioned that software
> floats were done for the sake of platforms that don't do floating point at
> all, let alone double precision.
>
> Are you sure we already talked about 64-bit double precision values
> specifically?  It's not ringing a bell at all.

The topic, then and now, was DGD's floating point implementation.  You
were part of that discussion.  Whether or not I "rejected your suggestion"
is not the point; the same platforms exist today, and I want DGD to run on
them.

Regards,
Felix Croes



More information about the DGD mailing list