std.math performance (SSE vs. real)

[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.

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