From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Immediate doubles (up to 2^256) and rationals coming to Guile 3
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 22:09:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190606200903.GA27080@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhmvaw5p.fsf@netris.org>
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On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 05:40:39AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> I've found a way to efficiently support both immediate IEEE binary-64
> doubles up to ~1.158e77 (with larger ones transparently allocated on the
> heap), and also immediate exact rationals with up to 54 binary digits
> (~16 decimal digits), without restricting the 64-bit pointer space at
> all, and without any loss of arithmetic precision.
[...]
Impressive bitfiddling feat. Thanks for the enjoyable explanation, too!
Cheers
-- t
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-06 9:40 Immediate doubles (up to 2^256) and rationals coming to Guile 3 Mark H Weaver
2019-06-06 12:56 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-06-06 19:37 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-06-12 0:03 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-06-06 20:09 ` tomas [this message]
2019-06-07 19:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-09 16:56 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-06-09 17:30 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-06-11 8:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-11 10:58 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-06-11 12:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-11 11:34 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-06-08 1:13 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-06-08 8:07 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-06-08 9:08 ` Chris Vine
2019-06-08 9:46 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-06-08 10:24 ` Chris Vine
2019-06-08 13:12 ` Hans Åberg
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