std.math performance (SSE vs. real)

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 15:04 +0200, dennis luehring via Digitalmars-d
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:
> > [
]
> >> 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?

None but what has that do do with the core problem being debated?

The core problem here is that no programming language has a proper type
system able to deal with hardware. C has a hack, Fortran as a less
problematic hack. Go insists on float32, float64, etc. which is better
but still not great.

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