std.math performance (SSE vs. real)

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 27 June 2014 at 13:04:31 UTC, dennis luehring wrote:
> Am 27.06.2014 14:20, schrieb Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d:
>> On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 11:10 +0000, John Colvin via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> [
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>>> I understand why the current situation exists. In 2000 x87 was
>>> the standard and the 80bit precision came for free.
>>
>> Real programmers have been using 128-bit floating point for 
>> decades. All
>> this namby-pamby 80-bit stuff is just an aberration and should 
>> never
>> have happened.
>
> what consumer hardware and compiler supports 128-bit floating 
> points?

I think he was joking :)

No consumer hardware supports IEEE binary128 as far as I know. 
Wikipedia suggests that Sparc used to have some support.