dec64 decimal floating point type

Alix Pexton alix.DOT.pexton at gmail.DOT.com
Sat Apr 12 14:48:28 PDT 2014


http://dec64.org/

I recently discovered this while watching a presentation by Doug 
Crockford on YouTube.

I know that Dlang is not in the category of languages that this new 
numeric representation is aimed at, but Dlang might well be used to 
implement a VM or compiler for one that is.

I think it is ripe for implementation along the same lines as half floats.

The reference implementation is on github (linked from the above) and is 
marked as public domain but porting the assembler (or rather the macros) 
non-trivial with my skill-set.

Anyone else convinced or opposed?

Anyone with more assembler-foo willing to lend a hand to the porting effort?

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