good reasons not to use D?

Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sun Nov 1 07:49:48 PST 2015


On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 23:16:04 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> Although still years away from production, the Mill CPU will 
> have decimal floating point:
>
>   http://millcomputing.com/wiki/Instruction_Set


Mill is a fun project, and there are also base 10 floating point 
FPGA coprocessors available, but probably not widely deployed.

I've personally settled for storing in cents instead, as integers 
have accurate precision (storing "30.0" instead of "0.3"). The 
problem is then reduced to writing a wrapper for floats with a 
dedicated string_to_float conversion that is loss free.



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