* Floating point numbers fitting into SCM object
@ 2024-11-13 11:37 Tommi Höynälänmaa
2024-11-13 12:14 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
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From: Tommi Höynälänmaa @ 2024-11-13 11:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Has anyone considered implementing floating point values with e.g. 60
bits that could fit into an SCM object? They would be more efficient
than double precision numbers and almost as accurate.
- Tommi Höynälänmaa
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* Re: Floating point numbers fitting into SCM object
2024-11-13 11:37 Floating point numbers fitting into SCM object Tommi Höynälänmaa
@ 2024-11-13 12:14 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
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From: Mikael Djurfeldt @ 2024-11-13 12:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Tommi Höynälänmaa; +Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
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Hi Tommi,
I haven't seen it discussed and don't rule out that it could have some
value, if suitable space still exists in the current SCM encoding of types.
Personally, though, my hopes are that eventually most actual computation in
Guile code would be done unboxed---which is a compilation problem.
Best regards,
Mikael
Den ons 13 nov. 2024 12:38Tommi Höynälänmaa <tommi.hoynalanmaa@gmail.com>
skrev:
> Has anyone considered implementing floating point values with e.g. 60
> bits that could fit into an SCM object? They would be more efficient
> than double precision numbers and almost as accurate.
>
> - Tommi Höynälänmaa
>
> --
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> Sähköposti / E-Mail: tommi.hoynalanmaa@iki.fi
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>
>
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